| A Newly Discovered Bronzino |
Summer/Fall 2001
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The leading artist in Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century and court painter to the Medici ducal court throughout the 1540s and 1550s, Agnolo Bronzino......
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| A Return to the Classics |
Summer 2001
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Since antiquity, the artistic vocabulary developed by the Greeks and Romans has resonated in the works of painters, sculptors......
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| Aelbert Cuyp, A Panoramic View of Dordrecht and the Maas |
Summer/Fall 2001
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Albert Cuyp was one of the greatest Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. His success and popularity earned him the......
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| Alterations, Repairs, or Colonial Revival? |
Summer/Fall 2001
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he Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a Colonial Revival restoration from 1908. The house......
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| An Important Signed Colonial Indian Carved Pier Table |
Summer/Fall 2001
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Labeled examples of Colonial Indian furniture from this time period are virtually unknown. Records indicate that......
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| Anne Ramsdell Congdon |
Summer/Fall 2001
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In the early twentieth century, women artists and art patrons played a significant role in the establishment and growth of an art colony on the picturesque island of......
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| Army Signalman Whirligig |
Summer/Fall 2001
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One of the treasures of American folk art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a large whirligig figure of an army......
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| Bombé Furniture at Bayou Bend, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Summer/Fall 2001
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While historical antecedents for bombé furniture can be identified as far back as ancient Rome, in eighteenth-century America the design’s inspiration......
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| British and American Cast-Iron Garden Seats |
Summer/Fall 2001
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In the early nineteenth century, the decoration of landscaped public and private spaces became a fashionable component of the popular culture in......
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| California Impressionists |
Summer/Fall 2001
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The place itself...positioned Lyme, Connecticut, as a perfect setting for an art colony. The town, now called Old Lyme, is a former ship-building center......
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