Bibliography of The Met’s Paper Conservation department
In History: Conserving Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Initiation Cards, Continued.� http
Magazine of Art 31 (April 1938), p. 224, fig. 11. Harry B. Wehle.
attachment of a textile blanket adorned with gold appliqué and cinnabar (AMNH B/
Attribution, Date, and Bruegel’s Working Methods: When The Met acquired The Harvesters in 1919, the extraordinarily low sale price in part had to do with the art market that had virtually collapsed during World War I
B.34, gives the history of the five pictures that belonged to Leopold Wilhelm; catalogues
The Picture: A vase of flowers stands on a stone socle, its contents spilling forth from the surrounding alcove. Visible on the heavily shadowed vase, perhaps made of terracotta or gilt bronze, are the plump figure of a reclining putto, vegetable ornamentation, and a grotesque face
Butterflies: A) heath fritillary B) red admiral.
Persons from all walks of life made religious journeys, with far-reaching consequences for society and culture as a whole.
required to enshrine the holy objects ( 53.19.2); ( 47.101.33); ( 17.190.352a,b)
Medusa is a deadly and cryptic other, but she is also ubiquitous, with an undeniable energy that inspired artists to repeat her semblance and story in diverse ways across literature, lore, and art through ancient Greece, Rome, and beyond.
She is present as the central decoration on many vases ( 06.1021.246a,b), as well
[C. Leonard Woolley] began to reveal an extensive cemetery and gradually uncovered some 1,800 graves.
Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art October 2003 Further Reading Moorey, P.
Often saved and passed down from generation to generation, wedding dresses are a key means of understanding fashion traditions in different cultures across time and geographies.
A wedding dress in The Costume Institute ( C.I.46.97.1a,b) is a near match to one
A belief in amulets and the magical properties of stones was not relegated to the realm of the uneducated and superstitious.
Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile, p. 15.. New York: Abrams, 2000.
