It also examines the development of the Museum's textile collection, on the grounds that it is closely related to the appreciation of work done by women, by the Museum's curators and by the Spanish intellectual 茅lite of the time. The essay concludes with the idea that the MNAD was ...
The Crown Prince's Treasure which Prince Philip V inherited contains elaborate carved glasses, tableware, jewellery and pieces of furniture and is a notable part of the Prado's collection of Decorative Arts. It is impossible to see the Prado at its best within the space of a day so several ...
National Museum and Galleries of Capodimonte, art museum in Naples housed in the Palazzo of Capodimonte (begun 1738). (Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.) Charles VII, the Bourbon king of Naples and later Charles III of Spain, who
and early 18th century has been labeled “Churrigueresque.” Narciso and Diego Tomé, in theUniversity of Valladolid(1715), and Pedro de Ribera, in thefacadeof the San Fernando Hospital (now the Municipal Museum) in Madrid (1722), proved themselves to be the chief inheritors of Churriguera....
(1905-1906, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,)" is one of the highlights of the show, paired with Matisse's "Portrait of Auguste Pellerin II, (1917, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris). The mask-like appearance of Gertrude Stein's face was deliberate, completed after Picasso studied ...