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Wistariahurst is a historic house museum and the former estate of the Skinner family, located at 238 Cabot Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts.It was built in 1868 for William Skinner, the owner of a successful silk spinning and textile business, and is named for the abundant wisteria vines which cascade across its eastern facade. [5]
It is the fifth-most valuable sculpture to date (2018) and the most valuable piece from antiquity. [ 6 ] Damien Hirst has claimed that his sculpture For the Love of God , which consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds , was sold for £50 million (around US$75 million) in August 2007.
The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals and Morgan Memorial Hall ...
Bison Licking Insect Bite; 15,000-13,000 BC; antler; National Museum of Prehistory (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France) This is a descriptive list of Stone Age art, the period of prehistory characterised by the widespread use of stone tools. This article contains, by sheer volume of the artwork discovered, a very incomplete list of the works ...
This is the list of the Hermitage paintings acquired by Andrew W. Mellon during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings in 1930–1931 and donated to the National Gallery of Art. [ 1 ] Year
The original World Trade Center complex featured a variety of sculptures and other art pieces from 1973 until the destruction of the buildings in the September 11 attacks. Many of these art pieces were located on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza in the center of the complex, or in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center.
The Sea 1 (Dolphins), oil on canvas painting by William Frederic Ritschel, c. 1928, Honolulu Museum of Art He spent his first summer near Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , in 1911. Six years later he purchased a "seasonal cottage" and rented a studio from Elizabeth T Bigelow [ 9 ] in the nearby Carmel Highlands .
In England, the Amaravati sculptures were destined for the museum of the East India Company. Known as the India Museum, this institution was established in 1801 to house the natural history specimens, books, samples of manufactures, manuscripts and other miscellaneous items stolen by the company and its officers in India. [7]