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Frick Collection
FRICK COLLECTION FRICK COLLECTION, at 1 East Seventieth Street in New York City, is a museum devoted to late medieval through early modern art. Founded by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), it houses his collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and decorative arts, as... Read more |
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Folger Shakespeare Library
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY. The Folger Shakespeare Library, opened in 1932, houses the world's largest collection of Shakespearean manuscripts. Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger, both avid manuscript collectors, established the library as a repository... Read more |
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Henri Focillon
Henri Focillon , 1881-1943, French art historian. Focillon, who was professor of art history at the Collège de France, was an authority on medieval art, the subject of his two-volume treatise Art of the West in the Middle Ages (2d ed. 1969). His book Life Forms in Art (1934) outlines his... Read more |
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Esquire History of Henry Esmond The
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Joseph Henry Shorthouse
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Henry Augustus Wise
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hagiography
...written in or soon after 697, is the richest in accessible historical information. Weaving...for St Brigid's church at Kildare. Two Lives of St Patrick, both extant in the...the Latin collections has shown that the collectors used for some of the Lives a manuscript... |
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music
...of recovering what in probability was a rich tradition of monophony. Sporadic but instructive comments...provided further evidence of disparity between two traditions of Irish music. Whereas Bunting (and the collectors who succeeded him) laboured to preserve... |
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Ultra-Rich Collectors Help Keep Art Market Afloat
...25-2008 Ultra-Rich Collectors Help Keep Art Market...Blair paid a visit to a collector. ELIZABETH BLAIR...his wife are serious collectors. Works by Warhol...the contemporary art collector, nor their pocketbook...art market is going in ... |
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Rich collectors to feast at 3 N.Y. auctions in Nov.
...will dominate the publicity. Thirty-two contemporary artworks from the Burton and...last year, and 79 percent over the last two years. Impressionist and post-impressionist...prints have soared beyond the reach of most collectors. Increasingly, pieces by Picasso, Wassily... |
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Showing their stuff: who needs museums? Britain's richest collectors are...
...is one of England's top collectors, with 2,000 works ranging...s gallery is composed of two prefab sheds, much like...known and most voracious collector, Charles Saatchi, opened...he was an anomaly. Today collectors on both sides of the Atlantic...of the ... |
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Scandalous Obsession With Beauty; William Beckford Was Rich, Notorious -- and...
...could countenance. But the collector's fabled hoard of decorative...Devon. Despite marriage and two daughters, Beckford was ostracized...his era's greatest private collectors. Gold and silver objects...expand understanding of the collector's impact. He ... |
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Buying Royal souvenirs is a mug's game; notoriety not affection yields richer...
...mugs are most in demand with collectors so they usually make the best...memorabilia is most in demand among collectors, though because of the quantity...year when the marriages of two of the Queen's sons broke...were not yet in fashion, but collectors could ... |
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Russian painting: international auction houses are expanding their Russian...
...Russian department. The big buyers have been private Russian collectors, their zeal in acquiring pictures understandable, but unlikely...Sotheby's announced with some elation the discovery of two of his portraits of smiling peasant girls, one of which realised... |
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Chapter & Verse; Books, Thoreau once wrote, `are the treasured wealth of...
...Almost every booth at this two-day fair in Savage, Md., carries a few; one or two Sue Graftons, some Donald...happy unless we're buying two books for every one we sell...10 times that much. Another collector fingers a first of Glenway...jacket. Among serious ... |
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the fine art of buying; Move over Saatchi - there's a new breed of collector...
...Well-educated, rich yet non-establishment...scene by the success of collectors such as Charles Saatchi...group of wellheeled new collectors is largely down to education...says Judith Greer, a collector and patron of the arts...art, part of what the ... |
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PORTRAIT OF THE PATRON A RICH GARDNER SHOW GIVES A 16TH-CENTURY COLLECTOR HIS...
...loans from museums and private collectors in Italy, France, Switzerland...who stares right back. The two were great rivals; this gem...While by the same artist, the two are startlingly different...process, as contemporary collectors are now. Among the ... |
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Florida in the frame ; In December, South Beach, Miami, home to the super...
...place to go. It's brilliant. Two days after I arrive I always...competitiveness of immense wealth. The rich people here are obscenely, flabber-gastingly, rich. The famous people are proper...The art isn't confined to rich people's houses, though... |
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