A look at the art created across the world in the years around Year One of the Western calendar reveals an incredible richness and variety of cultures.
Sword and Scabbard Celtic ca. 60 BCE Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P.
The books ran the gamut from princely folio size to pocket handbook, but most were modest volumes intended to guide tradesmen in constructing fashionable furniture.
them, or later imported, a variety of titles, particularly modest books such as P.
The Damascus Room is a residential reception chamber (qaʿa) typical of the late Ottoman period in Damascus, Syria.
between the poems inscribed in this room and the ones known from manuscripts, see: http
Art of the First Cities surveys the evolution of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world—from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley—during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
Cat. no. 50.2, p. 160-161. Quilter, Jeffrey.
Olmec artists were revolutionary for their time, establishing the first major widespread styles in Mesoamerica, laying the foundation for later innovation from the central Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan south to the Maya area.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 2017 Further Reading Benson, Elizabeth P.
The wrapping with linen changed forever the shape of the human body and created a new being of divine character that was believed to be able to live forever.
Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1987. Bryan, Betsy M.
Hellenistic kings became prominent patrons of the arts, commissioning public works of architecture and sculpture, as well as private luxury items that demonstrated their wealth and taste.
draped seated man Zeuxis 1st century BCE Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Antoine Caron’, Papers of Surrealism, 7, The Use-Value of Documents, November 2007. http
Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.
on a swing, a man with his arms raised; folio 21 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
