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Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs

... Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani and his wife, Sharmin, for their steadfast leadership of the NoRuz at the Met Benefit and for their enthusiastic support of this exhibition. Indeed, the realization of this project is a testament to their and the ...

Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of VelĂĄzquez

... segundo viaje a Italia.” Archivo español de arte 84, no. 334 (April–June 2011), pp. 177–80. GarcĂ­a Cueto 2021 David GarcĂ­a Cueto. “El segundo ... Pablo GonzĂĄlez Tornel. Roma hispĂĄ- nica: Cultura festiva española en la capital del Barroco ...

Greek Art: From Prehistoric to Classical : a Resource for Educators

... Greek heroes , such as Herakles , and the great Olympian gods are often depicted on coins ; however , owing to the small size of the flans ( coin disks ) , the representations are mostly lim- ited to the head of these figures ...

Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687

... Telugu , as we learn from the preface to another Telugu poetic work , Tapati ... stories of virtue.17 In response to this aesthetic rapture , Ibrahim selected one of the episodes he had heard— the romantic ... Telugu lit- erary circles . Indeed ...

Highlights of the Untermyer Collection of English and Continental Decorative Arts

... design , it offers a splendid example of piercing from a period when the Eng- lish rococo style was waning . EX COLL . The Princess Royal ( Christie's , 6 July 1966 , lot 93 , ill . ) . REFERENCES : A. G. Grimwade , Proceedings of the ...

A History of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a Chapter on the Early Institutions of Art in New York

... John Pintard , for some years Secretary of the American Academy , the first to agitate the free school system , a ... Kelby , The New York Historical Society , 1804-1904 , p . 2 . 2R . H. Kelby , The New York Historical Society , 1804 ...

The Renaissance of Etching

... volume of Baiardo's collection, for example, were described as “Disegni del ... sword) can be associated with Bologna. A few show the arms of the Bolognese ... 19 Vasari 1550 and 1568/1966–87, vol.4 (text), p. 541. 20 Vasari 1568/1966–87 ...

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art

An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more ...

Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection : [exhibition]

... Ryƍ , dated to “ Mid - autumn , year of Kibƍ [ 1843 ] " SEALS : " Ryƍ In ” “ Baiitsu " Yamamoto Baiitsu , who is ... Sakazaki Shizuka , ed . , Nihon Gadan Taikan ( Tokyo , 1917 ) , pp . 146-164 . 100 200 1000 B00. 286 86.

Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

... Columbia River — a view the camera failed to capture because of the ... camera vision . Modern artists embraced photography's cool mechanical precision , but they ... fish - eye lens in a secondhand shop and used it to create a series of ...

19 Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts

... 3rd ed . , rev . and enl . , 3 vols . , Philadelphia and London , 1868 Cook ... edition , Boston , 1872 A History of The Gothic Revival , Lon- don and New ... Victoriana , An Ex- hibition of the Arts of the Victorian Era in America ( Apr ...

Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World

... Hellenistic realms, Pergamon—the ancient Greek capital of the Attalid Kingdom, located in the area of northwestern ... Kingdoms of the Ancient World,” presents an important royal capital at its heyday, under the Hellenistic dynasty of ...

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

... sheet of music.19 Faustina is further believed to be part of a second group ... song. Not only is this an indishows her engaged in a duet with Angelo Maria ... flute (fig. 37).21 The To the experience of sight, KĂ€ndler adds an illusory ...

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

"[Book] examines the relationship between high fashion and the evolving ideals of beauty through the careers and personifications of iconic models who posed in the salons, walked the runways, and exploded onto the pages of Vogue, Harper's ...

Impressionist and Post-impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

... sheet music on the chair in the foreground . In addition , he changed the color of the curtains and placed a different vase on top of the piano . Three other variations exist in oil , one in pastel . Such related works , painted on ...

The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars : Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

... Essay by Richard Hiepe . Exhibition catalogue , 1969 . Leavens , Ileana B ... Boston : Little , Brown , 1963 ; reprint 1988 . Man Ray Photographs . Essays ... Essay by Kim Sichel . Exhibition catalogue , 1988 . MusĂ©e d'Art Moderne de la ...

Walker Evans

... Photographs by Walker Evans . Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott , 1933 . Walker Evans . American Photographs . Essay ... Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1941 ; 2d , enlarged ed . , 1960 . Walker Evans . Wheaton College Photographs ...

The Drawings of Bronzino

... photographs were supplied by the owners of the works of art , who hold the ... essay ; fig . 26-1 ; plates 2 , 6 , 27 Ashmolean Museum , Oxford ... Boston : cat . no . 51 Kupferstich - Kabinett , Staatliche Kunstsamm- lungen , Dresden ...

The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated

... Genji's child—which is, in many ways, the event that generates the unfolding ... Genji lavishes praise on her: “Your writing possesses a supple grace and ... words and her calligraphy were exceptionally refined, and her extraordinary ...

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture

... poses, would then be the sons of the king. Does the elder turn his head ... colossal statue from Istanbul in the lower city of Amathus two years prior ... action, one arm raised; one stands clearly in front, visibly larger than the others ...

Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators

... glue was first applied to the wood panel . Then the panel was covered with a warm mixture of ani- mal glue and a powdered white mineral such as gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) , commonly used in Italy , or chalk ( calcium carbonate ) , fre ...

Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

... Goff ( 1978 , 38 ) that the finds from that site “ throw little light on the ... lion pin comes from Period III ( Goff 1978 , 38 ) . Goff dates these objects ... lion pin must be considered as eighth century at the earliest , and possibly ...

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

... Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea unintentionally misquoted this line as ... set forth this belief in an 1840 book titled Lectures on Our Israelitish ... Robertston Says He Intended No Anti-Semitism in Book He Wrote Four Years Ago,” New ...

Firearms from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein

... gun- makers ' guild in that city was founded relatively late — in 1661 — and ... Spanish barrels or with locally made Spanish - style barrels that had blued surfaces and gold - punched makers ' marks ... gun in the Liechtenstein collection ...

Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987–1988

... Gun Spanish ( Madrid ) , dated 1744 Steel , gold , and wood Length overall ... maker of this hunting gun , Gabriel de Algora , was ap- pointed gunmaker to ... mark and countermark and is inscribed across the top in large letters , ALGORA ...

Liechtenstein, the Princely Collections

... stocks in full , describing himself as Bildhauer und Bixenschifter ( sculptor and gunstock- maker ) , and many of the ivory plaques found on his guns , and in particular the butt - trap covers carved in high relief such as the Fortune on ...

The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art : an Exhibition

... pistol ( not exhibited ) . Pommel caps Detail of cat . no . III . Butt ... mark , the stamped letters EM ES , probably for Emanuel ... Spanish character evident in many of the firearms produced there , and in the Spanish - type barrel marks ...

American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865

... limited number were produced in silver and gold for dignitaries and ... replicas be presented to selected museums , including the Metropolitan . 14 ... Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics ( New York ...

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture

... Fall to the New Covenant after the Flood , with the vitality and immediacy of ... the " Woman Who Fell from the Sky , " or " Earth - grasper , " » 7 informs a ... Online , updated and revised September 27 , 1999 , from the Dictionary of ...

Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years

... Life . New York : Harper and Row , 1975 . Abbott , James A. A Frenchman in Camelot : The Decoration of the Kennedy ... My Fashion . New York : David McKay Company , 1960 . Bartlett , Apple Parish ... Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis . New York ...

A Deadly Art: European Crossbows, 1250–1850

... Saracen Archery: An English Version and Exposition ofa Mameluke Work on Archery (ca. a.d . 1368) (London, 1970), pp. 85–86; and Paterson, Guide to the Crossbow, p. 43. 4 The earliest examples appear to have been based on the mechanisms ...

The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984

... roar . " Sync sound " —the technique of bind- ing the visual and the auditory in seamless union — was born in the 1920s and has since then constituted the primary technical support of classical , post - silent cinema ; 53 upon it the ...

Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors: 843-1261 : the Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia

... Theotokos , from an Annunciation diptych in the Church of Saint Kliment in ... rule not through the power of weapons , but through the spirit of the Lord ... rule of Isaac II Angelos as a " New Just Reign . " He refers to the latter as ...

Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This study offers the reader an insightful introduction to the painter & his great talent. It includes 43 color & black & white photographs of Goya's work as displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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