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The Gaeta Diocesan Museum, formally known as the Museo Diocesano e della Religiosità del Parco dei Monti Aurunci, displays a collection of religious objects and artworks, and is housed in the Palazzo De Vio, adjacent to the cathedral of Gaeta, region of Lazio, Italy.
In the countryside, Crescentii castles concentrated a cluster of population that depended on them for their defense and were dependable armed members of the Crescentii clientage. After Sergius IV's death (1012), the Crescentii simply installed their candidate, Gregory, in the Lateran, without the assent of the cardinals. A struggle flared ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Parke-Bernet, New York [171] [174] $5-$6 million Ginevra de' Benci: Leonardo da Vinci: c. 1474–1478: February 1967: Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Private sale [171] $5.5 million (£2.3 million) Portrait of Juan de Pareja: Diego Velázquez: c. 1650 ...
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The Duchy of Gaeta (Latin: Ducatus Caietae) was an early medieval state centered on the coastal South Italian city of Gaeta. It began in the early ninth century as the local community began to grow autonomous as Byzantine power lagged in the Mediterranean and the peninsula due to Lombard and Saracen incursions.
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($159 million in 2024 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
Seventeenth-century engraving depicting a view of the city of Gaeta; the lighthouse ("Lanterna") of St. Catherine is shown on the upper left side.The earliest established record concerning a women's monastery dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria dates back to 1384; [3] according to the "Platea del Venerabile Monastero S. Caterina della Città di Gaeta" of c. 1748, however, it would have ...
From historical pieces owned by French royalty to edgy Art Deco designs and mid-century classics, here are 11 of the most expensive and lavish vintage furniture pieces out there. 1. Chippendale ...