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The ivory's history between then and 1625 is unknown – in that year it was offered by the leading antiquary Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the Papal legate Cardinal Francesco Barberini in Aix-en-Provence, becoming part of the Barberini collection in Rome. Peiresc mentions it specifically in a letter to his friend Palamède de Vallavez ...
The Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam opened in 2017. Its exhibitions range from the so-called Old Masters to contemporary art, with an emphasis on impressionist painting. Centered around works from the collection of its founder and patron Hasso Plattner , the Barberini presents three temporary exhibitions per year, featuring loans ...
Steuben Glass is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York, which is in Steuben County, from which the company name was derived.
Thanks to more than 150 artworks from their 4,000-piece collection, the Baroque institution has never looked fresher.
The Palazzo Barberini (English: Barberini Palace) is a 17th-century palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi. Today, it houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica , the main national collection of older paintings in Rome.
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The panel is the largest single piece of carved Byzantine ivory that survives, [1] at 42.9 × 14.3 cm (16 7/8 × 5 5/8 in). [2] It is, along with the Barberini ivory , one of two important surviving 6th-century Byzantine ivories attributed to the imperial workshops of Constantinople under Justinian, [ 3 ] although the attribution is mostly ...
Ivory consular diptych of Areobindus, Byzantium, 506 AD, Louvre Wax tablet and a Roman stylus Barberini Ivory, Constantinople, 6th century, Louvre. A diptych (/ ˈ d ɪ p t ɪ k /, DIP-tick) is any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by a hinge.