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German art and architecture
German art and architecture artistic works produced within the region that became politically unified as Germany in 1871 generally followed the stylistic currents of Western Europe. The Carolingian and Ottonian Periods Carolingian architecture and art are commonly considered to have been the... Read more |
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, established in 1805, incorporated in 1806. It is supported by private endowment. The academy grew out of a proposal by Charles Willson Peale for an art institution; this led to the founding of the Columbianum, which in 1795 mounted the first art... Read more |
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Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenæum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. The first building was opened in 1876; the... Read more |
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Turner Prize
Turner Prize. An annual prize (originally £10,000, now £20,000) for British achievement in the visual arts, named after the great English painter J. M. W. Turner. It was established in 1984 by the Patrons of New Art, a body founded two years earlier (as part of the Friends of the Tate... Read more |
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace , residence of British sovereigns from 1837, in Westminster metropolitan borough, London, England, adjacent to St. James's Park. Built (1703) by the duke of Buckingham, it was purchased (1761) by George III and was remodeled (1825) by John Nash; the eastern facade was added in... Read more |
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George Biddle
George Biddle 1885-1973, American painter and writer on art, b. Philadelphia. After studying abroad Biddle settled in the 1930s in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he devoted himself to paintings of social import. During World War II he served as chairman of the War Dept. Art Commission and later held... Read more |
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Pharaoh of Egypt Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III Amenhotep III (reigned 1417-1379 B.C.) was the ninth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The Pharaoh was a patron of the arts, and during his reign magnificent buildings and sculptures were created. Amenhotep III came to the throne at a time when his country was at the... Read more |
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Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the classical Beaux-Arts style by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan,... Read more |
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Mycenaean art
Mycenaean art. A term applied to the art of Greece in the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic Period), that is, from about 1500 to about 1100 bc. Usually the term embraces the art not only of the mainland, but also of the Greek Islands with the exception of Crete (see Minoan art). Mycenaean art is named... Read more |
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