The Pierpont Morgan Wing: A HandbookMetropolitan Museum of Art, 1929 - 394 σελίδες Written in 1925, this handbook discusses the objects exhibited in the galleries of the Pierpont Morgan Wing. Historic photographs of the galleries provide insight into the history of this part of the museum, and a series of general chapters discuss the development of the arts and periods represented in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection with a consideration of political, social, and economic contexts. |
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arabesque architecture artistic ateliers beautiful boiserie bronze Byzantine Byzantine art carved casket champlevé characteristic charming Christ church classical cloisonné color console-table decoration delicate diptych doors earlier early eighteenth century elaborate Empire enamel étui example exhibited exquisite faience fifteenth figure Flemish France French furniture Gallery F German gold Gothic Gothic art grisaille Hubert Robert influence Italian Italy ivory ivory-carving late Limoges Louis XVI style mantel marble medallions mediaeval ment metalwork miniature Morgan Collection motives Moustiers niello original ormolu ornament over-door painted and gilded panels piece plaques popular portrait probably produced relief reliquary Renaissance representing rococo Romanesque Romanesque art Rouen Saint salon scenes sculpture second half seventeenth century shown silver-gilt sixteenth century statuette tapestry taste teenth century thirteenth century tion ture tury twelfth century typical Versailles Virgin and Child window wall wood wood-carving woodwork XVI CENTURY
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 28 - Crusades (from the end of the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century), and the contact with Oriental civilization developed new ideals of luxury.
Σελίδα 72 - Ptolemaic doctrines and proved that the earth was not the center of the universe but moved with other planets around the sun.
Σελίδα 102 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Σελίδα 55 - ... of Art in New York, where they somehow found their way from the church of the monastery of Jumati in Georgia, there are nine enamel medallions. In the Handbook of the Pierpont Morgan wing of this museaum, page 55, there is the following reference made to these medallions. ( See Appendix No. 23 : ) "The highest quality of Byzantine enameling is exemplified in the nine medallions in Case J (fig. 28) with half-length figures of Christ, the Virgin, and saints, which once decorated a large icon of...
Σελίδα 55 - ... museaum, page 55, there is the following reference made to these medallions. ( See Appendix No. 23 : ) "The highest quality of Byzantine enameling is exemplified in the nine medallions in Case J (fig. 28) with half-length figures of Christ, the Virgin, and saints, which once decorated a large icon of St. Gabriel, now destroyed, formerly in the church of the monastery of Jumati, in Georgia (Caucasia). The medallions, which date from the end of the eleventh century, are superlatively fine in execution,...
Σελίδα 166 - The marriage in 1469 of Isabella of Castile with Ferdinand of Aragon united...
Σελίδα xvii - TO 1913 AS TRUSTEE BENEFACTOR AND PRESIDENT HE WAS IN ALL RESPECTS A GREAT CITIZEN HE HELPED TO MAKE NEW YORK THE TRUE METROPOLIS OF AMERICA HIS INTEREST IN ART WAS LIFELONG HIS GENEROUS DEVOTION TO IT COMMANDED WORLDWIDE APPRECIATION HIS MUNIFICENT GIFTS TO THE MUSEUM ARE AMONG ITS CHOICEST TREASURES...
Σελίδα 74 - For humanism, which was the vital element in the Revival of Learning, consists mainly of a just perception of the dignity of man as a rational, volitional and sentient being, born upon this earth with a right to use it and enjoy it.
Σελίδα 371 - East" watch, one of a type often given as a prize in the tennis tournament by King Charles II. No. 143, Case A.
Σελίδα 46 - Of the secular ivory caskets of the Veroli type, of which some fifty examples are known, we are fortunate in possessing three complete examples and several panels from similar pieces. The three caskets in Case G are ornamented with carvings of warriors, FIG.