The Marimion Room was the principal parlor of Marmion, a plantation house built around 1756 by the Fitzhugh family of Virginia. The room’s elaborate painting was executed in the 1770s and is one of the most ambitious decorative schemes to survive from eighteenth-century America.
John may have been the Lewis family’s butler after Billy.
The first American artist to study in Italy, West painted assiduously and embraced the embryonic Neoclassical movement then developing over all of Europe.
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versos, upper left, in black porous point pen):a: GILBERT & GEORGE / HERE 1987 / 1/35b:
Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, Gilbert and George, as they are now known, have
There is no record of this picture prior to its purchase between 1882 and 1884 by William Graham (1817–1885), a Glasgow merchant, major supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, and notable collector of early Italian paintings
original, though like the haloes, has lost whatever glazes or decoration there may have
This work depicts an idealized male leader that would have been the companion to
BottleThis bottle clearly illustrates the transitional phase of development between Late Antique and early Islamic period artifacts. Of all the crafts, glassmaking was perhaps the most conservative in terms of both artistic continuity over time and the transfer of skills and ideas from one generation to another
As a rule, Late Roman glass did not have a pontil mark, and neither does this bottle
conservation, Islamic
X-radiographs, which have even shorter wavelengths, can uncover evidence of original
Although no signs of houses were found [in Wadi Kubbaniya], diverse and sophisticated stone implements for hunting, fishing, and collecting and processing plants were discovered around hearths.
northwest of Aswan in Upper Egypt, some interesting sites of the kind described above have
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Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
