The Artist: The Sienese master Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique
He may have spent some time with Duccio (see 2004.442), but in his monumental mural
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 Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
Punnett Endowment Fund, Marquand and Charles B.
We can speculate about some of Wah’s duties thanks to a set of wooden models that were probably made during his lifetime as part of the burial equipment of his employer, Meketre.
He must have been told countless times of the heroic deeds of Nebhepetre and his
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
All relics bestowed honor and privileges upon the possessor, and monasteries and cathedrals sought to hold the most prestigious. Some relics were even stolen from one church, only to find a new home in another.
Medieval reliquaries frequently assume the form of caskets (chasses) ( 2002.483.3a,b)
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
Shoes provide important clues to dramatic changes in fashionable dress through the centuries, documenting shifts in aesthetic taste, as well as advances in design and manufacturing techniques.
elongated toes, these shoes affected the wearer’s ease of movement and would not have
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
