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.
head crests; long streamers emerge from their open, fanged mouths; their bodies have
Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Lisht, 1913-1914. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914.Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One or more deities, who have not been preserved, would have stood in front of and
Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. (until d. 1957; by descent to Andrews family); by descent in the Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. family (until 2017; sale, Christie’s, London, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: Including Export Art, May 15, 2007, lot 171, as „An extremely rare and important Tang dynasty painting on silk,“ through Eskenaz, Ltd
It consists of two parts that may or may not have matched each other originally.
Depicting warriors, musicians, hunters, and dancers, the figures were mold-made and have
Gericault’s lifelong interest in animal themes is best known through his love of horses. He had an intimate knowledge of horses, which he derived not only from drawing and painting them continually but also from developing his skills as an equestrian
known only by means of a replica (Musée du Louvre, Paris), which is thought to have
While the origin of many concepts, practices, and monuments can be traced to earlier periods, it was during the Old Kingdom that they developed into the forms that would characterize and influence the rest of pharaonic history.
(ca. 2490–2472 B.C.), who built the other two pyramids at Giza, there seems to have
Despite its grandeur, the monument seemed so personal, so intimate and melancholic.
Nearly thirteen feet tall, it would have been brightly painted when first raised
Assistant Horticulturist Carly Still recounts a recent trip to Chile, where she observed the annual harvest of almonds at a local orchard.
They have been growing almonds and much more since 1963.
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contents About the authors For successive generations the Princes of Liechtenstein have
