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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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 82 - Gothic in style, intent upon dramatic expression and the violent realization of forms. In the fourteenth century these divergences of national style, which we have just noted, merged more or less completely into one international style centering around France as the arbiter of fashion. As the large cathedrals had received most or all of their sculptured decoration by this time, the sculptor was now principally occupied with the production of single figures independent of architectural setting, and...
Σελίδα 86 - Memling, whose tranquil style combines something of Italian grace with the objectivity of northern realism. With Quentin Massys Italian influence made itself definitely felt in Flemish painting, and in the course of the sixteenth century transformed the Gothic style of the Low Countries. The dominant trait of German painting in the late fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century is mystic tenderness. In the second half of the fifteenth century Flemish influence became paramount, and the...
Σελίδα 166 - Alps, was giving rise to the modern states. In the course of the fifteenth century, both England and France established strong monarchical governments; the Hundred Years' War had settled the question between the two countries of supremacy on the Continent; and the royal power had been strengthened in England by the War of the Roses and in France by the crafty plotting of Louis XI. The marriage in 1469 of Isabella of Castile with Ferdinand of Aragon united the greater part of Spain, and with the fall...
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...
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.