Shoes provide important clues to dramatic changes in fashionable dress through the centuries, documenting shifts in aesthetic taste, as well as advances in design and manufacturing techniques.
Institute, along with numerous examples of boots and shoes for children ( C.I.40.68.9a,b)
This learning-activity set provides a closer look at the Museum’s spectacular set of Byzantine silver objects, known as the David Plates.
Morales, Michael B. Norris, Alice W. Schwarz, and Edith W.
Although the iconic silhouette of the eighteenth century is that of the rectangularly panniered, conically corseted court dress, a simpler line of dress launched the era.
The width of the panniers ( 1991.6.1a,b) not only subsumed the flesh displaced by
Silver had long been associated with ceremony and achievement, but during the nineteenth century the preponderance of presentation vessels became even greater.
the extraordinary pair of vases presented to Governor DeWitt Clinton ( 1982.4a, b)
The first American artist to study in Italy, West painted assiduously and embraced the embryonic Neoclassical movement then developing over all of Europe.
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Muriel Draper, 1943 (C.I.43.85.2a, b) "La Perse" Coat Worn by Denise Poiret Hide
x 0.6 cm) Classification: Bone/Ivory-Ornaments Credit Line: Gift of Margaret B.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
it is the color or the structure that makes A Box Bottle by Elizabeth Fritsch (b.
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Eleven Shabtis inside Painted Jar 12.182.42a, b ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
