The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Guide to the Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan CollectionGilliss Press, 1914 - 158 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... remarkable achievement , but formed as it was by one man , and during a comparatively short period of his life , it is probably without parallel in the history of collecting , as there is to - day no collection which in range , variety ...
... remarkable achievement , but formed as it was by one man , and during a comparatively short period of his life , it is probably without parallel in the history of collecting , as there is to - day no collection which in range , variety ...
4. oldal
... remarkable little group of a Centaur and man ( perhaps to be identified with Pholos greeting Herakles ) , dating from about the eighth century B. C. It is of very primitive style , but of great importance on account of the rarity both ...
... remarkable little group of a Centaur and man ( perhaps to be identified with Pholos greeting Herakles ) , dating from about the eighth century B. C. It is of very primitive style , but of great importance on account of the rarity both ...
11. oldal
... remarkable oblong box of wood , covered with finely carved ivory plates , representing , on front , back and sides , scenes from the life of the beasts of the forest and of the chase , and on the lid two scenes of the human life of an ...
... remarkable oblong box of wood , covered with finely carved ivory plates , representing , on front , back and sides , scenes from the life of the beasts of the forest and of the chase , and on the lid two scenes of the human life of an ...
39. oldal
... remarkable de- velopment during the Renaissance was that of bronze casting . This art had not , of course , remained in abey- ance during the long centuries which intervened between the fall of the Classic World and the rebirth of ...
... remarkable de- velopment during the Renaissance was that of bronze casting . This art had not , of course , remained in abey- ance during the long centuries which intervened between the fall of the Classic World and the rebirth of ...
51. oldal
... remarkable quality of the pieces which compose it , this collection , one of the finest in private possession , illustrates in an exceptional way the splendid achievements of Renaissance ceramic art . The Italian ware known as MAJOLICA ...
... remarkable quality of the pieces which compose it , this collection , one of the finest in private possession , illustrates in an exceptional way the splendid achievements of Renaissance ceramic art . The Italian ware known as MAJOLICA ...
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artist Augsburg beautiful BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY Bellano bronzes Byzantine carved CASTEL DURANTE Catalogue CENTURY GALLERY 12 ceramic art circa classical collection contains color Crucifixion Cupid decorated Deruta diptych Donatello early eglomisé eighteenth century embossed engraved examples exhibited extreme left extreme right Faenza famous fifteenth figures Flemish floor-case Frame French German glass gold goldsmith Gothic Gubbio Huaud important Italian ivory J. P. Morgan Jean Lady Limoges Lord Louis Louis XV lustre majolica Mary master medallion miniature Morgan Collection mounted Museum nautilus Nuremberg objects origin ORMOLU ornamented painted painter panels period picture pieces Pierpont Morgan plaques plate porcelain portrait Portrait miniatures probably relief reliquaries Renaissance representing rock-crystal Saints scenes sculptor second shelf seventeenth century shown silver silver-gilt sixteenth century specimens splendid statuette style tankard tapestries top shelf tury Urbino vases Virgin wall ware WATCH workmanship XVI CENTURY GALLERY XVIII CENTURY
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158. oldal - Catalogue of the collection of jewels and precious works of art, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan.
159. oldal - Catalogue of the collection of miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan; compiled at his request by GC Williamson.
viii. oldal - Had such an assemblage represented the results of several generations of a family of collectors it would have been a most remarkable achievement, but formed as it was by one man, and the greater part during a comparatively short period of his life, it is probably without parallel in the history of collecting, as there is to-day no collection which in range, variety, and the high average of quality, outranks it.
159. oldal - Catalogue of the collection of watches; the property of J. Pierpont Morgan; compiled at his request by GC Williamson, Litt. D.," London, privately printed, 1912.
155. oldal - ... New York, is continuing its public spirited policy of presenting to the Library of Congress one copy of each of its current imported publications of British books, numbering this year 96 volumes. Notable gifts of individual works were received as follows : From Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, a copy of his "Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan; bronzes of the Renaissance and subsequent periods; introduction and descriptions by Wilhelm Bode.
143. oldal - If a glass could expand Cooper's pictures to the size of Van Dyck's, they would appear to have been painted to that proportion. If his portrait of Cromwell could be so enlarged, I do not know but Van Dyck would appear less great by comparison.
viii. oldal - During that time he purchased with almost feverish zeal, willingly pursued by dealers wherever he went, they knowing it was well worth while to save their best things for him, prince of collectors as he was in more ways than one. In many cases, of course, he bought individual objects as they were offered to him, but it was also part of his policy to secure entire collections when he could, and when he knew them to be of recognized high quality, and thus he often reaped the benefit of a lifetime of...
viii. oldal - ... during a comparatively short period of his life, it is probably without parallel in the history of collecting, as there is to-day no collection which in range, variety, and the high average of quality outranks it. Mr. Morgan always had a passionate love for beautiful things, but although he began to acquire these in his...
155. oldal - Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains. By SW Bushell and WM Laffan.
vii. oldal - To form an idea of the extent of his collections in their entirety it should be remembered that in addition to what is now placed on view there is in the Museum a vast amount of material belonging to them, distributed through its various departments, such for example as the large gallery of Chinese porcelains, the rich and important Hoentschel collection of mediaeval works of art, the Merovingian and Germanic antiquities, many paintings exhibited in our picture galleries, and individual objects in...