The Pierpont Morgan WingMetropolitan Museum of Art, 1925 - 395 σελίδες |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
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 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 86 - German painting in the late fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century is mystic tenderness.
Σελίδα 82 - At the end of the fourteenth century and in the early years of the fifteenth...
Σελίδα 51 - ... ornament, and the technical peculiarity, essentially Oriental, of the deep-set background on which the relief appears to be applied as cut-work, lead me to believe that the San Isidoro Crucifix was carved by a Spanish Arab who brought to the service of his Christian patron the skilled craftsmanship and the genius for decoration which are so amazingly displayed in the ivory caskets carved for the Mohammedan rulers of Spain. In the Morgan Collection is a plaque (Fig. 2), measuring 5f inches in...
Σελίδα 166 - The marriage in 1469 of Isabella of Castile with Ferdinand of Aragon united...
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.