Featuring new, accessibly written scholarship by the curatorial staff, this book will be the definitive resource on this world-renowned collection.
This is a magnificent study of the beautifully crafted Medieval reliquaries that enshrined holy relics, and their wider historical, cultural, political and religious context.
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.356 ( Woman in Stockholm ) , 1917 , oil on canvas , 97.5 X 63.8 cm . Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Taplin Jr. Camille Pissarro . The Lock at Pontoise , 1872 , oil 1992.96 on fabric , 53 x 83 cm .
On March 3, J. Pierpont Morgan informed Wall Street that he had assembled the U.S. Steel Corporation, capitalized at $1.4 billion, the world's first enterprise to surpass the billion-dollar mark. This meant, as Jean Strouse notes in her ...
Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre