Composed of thirty-two objects from the Museum’s collection, Vessel Orchestra is the first sound-based installation commissioned by The Met.
performance installation is made possible in part by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B.
… although Americans had begun to identify themselves as a nation, they were divided by sectional interests that deepened with rapid industrialization and the question of slavery.
B. Morse 1826 Cameo George W.
Length of Fabric>One of the more popular layouts with Ottoman textile artists, and one that eventually found its way into other media such as ceramic tile decoration, the pattern on this fabric fragment features parallel undulating vines adorned with leaves and flowers
(b/w). Grube, Ernst J. "The Ottoman Empire."
Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces a new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay examining everyday life in ancient Assyria.
.); b: 2.2 x 3 x 0.7 cm (7/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.).
Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 33, section II (1938). pp. 15–16, ill. frontispiece (b/
Dress of the eighteenth century is not without anachronisms and exoticisms of its own, but that singular, changing, revolutionizing century has become an icon in the history of fashion.
always be a measure of eighteenth-century theatricality and sensuality ( 33.54a, b)
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Feld, and Berry B.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
George Bisacca and Laurence B. Kanter October 1, 2008 1
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Parker Gilbert Cathy B.
Dado PanelThe room in Nishapur, Iran, from which this dado panel was excavated once had a lively scheme of painted decoration. The upper section of the wall was colored a deep red, beneath which was a short horizontal frieze of hexagons and diamonds, and a four-foot-high dado with alternating rectangular and square panels
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 37 no. 4 (1942). p. 104, ill. fig. 28 (b/
