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Lee Foundation; Irene Roosevelt Aitken, the Russell B. Aitken and Irene R.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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„It’s completely intuitive; it’s very responsive; it’s incredibly intimate.“
Factory Performance of Giga of Sonata number 6 in B flat major by Lodovico Guistini
After three years traveling throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotype—unique photographic images on silvered copper plates.
Featuring Grant B.
Editorial assistant Nadja Hansen expounds on why the Met is a great place for a date.
Stieglitz 1917 Lovers Sitting on a Rock; folio 24 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B"
„Simple Gifts: Shaker at The Met“ features more than two dozen works from The Met’s permanent collection, including furniture, textiles, and tools, that reflect the Shakers‘ life and art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966 (66.10.36a, b)
Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
Cambridge, Mass., 1996. p. 237; and Serjeant, R[orbert] B[ertram].
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Schulte Lori B. Bookstein Richard Ferguson and Marissa V.G.
When it came to depicting Jesus on the Cross, many artists of the earlier Middle Ages portrayed Jesus as alive and alert, his body entirely resistant to the trauma of crucifixion. In this example, Jesus almost bears himself easily, with his torso erect, knees slightly bent, and head held high
Rorimer, James J., and Margaret B. Freeman.
From before 1631 and until 1902, in the Giustiniani Collection, Rome; 1902, purchased from the Giustiniani family through Giuseppe Sangiorgi by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, New York; acquired in 1903, gift of Mrs
Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 135, pp. 77–78, pls. 100a–b, Cambridge, Mass
