Metropolitan Museum Of Art
King of the Confessors
King of the Confessors is Thomas Hoving's gripping account of the extraordinary events surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase, in 1963, of the magnificent medieval carved walrus ivory cross which the Museum calls "The Cloisters Cross", but Hoving calls "The Bury St
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Archangel Michael - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 1475 A.D
His name means "Who is as God". Michael ranks as the greatest of all angels whether in Jewish, Christian, or Islamic writings.
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Greek Sphinx - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 540-530 B.C.
This sphinx was a part of a Attic grave monument of the middle archaic period that reflected the opulence of the wealthy class of that time. The sphinx was placced atop a tall shaft, decorated with high relief sculpture and crowned by a cavetto capital.
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Art for Dummies
In this introduction, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Harding provides 14 chapters on the history of Western Art, shows readers how to begin their own collections, and offers tips for visiting famous galleries all over the...
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The Bone Vault
The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetrate the close-...
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Museum ABC
This introduction to the alphabet features artwork from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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