Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal
Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal

Author: Thomas Kren

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1992-07-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0892362049

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Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.

Love Forever
Love Forever

Author: Yayoi Kusama

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Texts by Laura Hoptman, Akira Tatehata, Lynn Zelevansky

The Robert Lehman Collection
The Robert Lehman Collection

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works.

Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island

Author: Judith Berdy

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738512389

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Roosevelt Island captures the fascinating and sometimes curious history of an island located halfway between Manhattan and Queens in the East River. In 1824, the city of New York purchased Blackwell's Island, later Welfare Island, as a site for its lunatic asylum, penitentiary, workhouses, and almshouses. In the years that followed, the island was a temporary home for several of New York City's famous and infamous. William Marcy Tweed, better known as "Boss Tweed," was imprisoned at the penitentiary in the 1870s. Mae West was incarcerated in 1927 at the Workhouse for Women after her appearance in a play called Sex. After many institutions were closed or relocated, Welfare Island was virtually ignored until 1973, when it was reborn as Roosevelt Island, which is now a model planned community and thriving home to almost ten thousand people.

Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam
Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam

Author: John Michael Montias

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9789053565919

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In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social and religious affiliations, wealth, and aesthetic preferences. Chapters focus not only on the art dealers who bought at these auctions, but also on buyers who had special connections with individual artists.