Mfa Publications: 4 books

Cover of Arts of Korea: MFA Highlights
by Jane Portal, Suhyung Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

Arts of Korea invites readers to explore one of the finest collections of Korean art outside East Asia, in an enhanced e-book that features 360-degree photographs of selected treasures that can be rotated with the touch of a finger. The MFA enjoys particularly superb holdings of ceramics, including...
Cover of The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha

The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha

The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture

by Lawrence M. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 BC, before it was buried in a temple...
Cover of Sargent's Daughters
by John Singer Sargent, Erica E. Hirshler
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal...
Cover of Sargent's Daughters

Sargent's Daughters

Biography of a Painting

by Erica E. Hirshler, John Singer Sargent
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called “thoroughly absorbing” (New York Times Book Review); “brilliant and insightful”?(Wall Street Journal); “an attractive,...
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