Administrator Christina Alphonso gives visitors a tour of the Christmastide decorations adorning The Met Cloisters this holiday season.
Since holly was apotropaic (or, seen as capable of warding off evil and bad luck)
The Gupta period, from the fourth to the sixth century A.D., in northern India, sometimes referred to as a Golden Age, witnessed the creation of an “ideal image” of the Buddha.
And it is their own karma—the sum total of deeds, good and bad—that determines the
Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 1986, p. 75, ill. no. 124. 3.　Wolfram Koeppe in Andreas
Making and breaking legacies.
you damage a statue, you could also damage the individual… RICCARDELLI: It was bad
Learn about the themes presented in the exhibition „Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.“
Elite Culture/Popular Culture Good Taste/Bad Taste High/Low examines the ambiguous
Creative risks. Artistic choices. Leaps of imagination and ventures for profit. The Met’s wide-ranging collection of British art and design from 1500 to 1900 captures a bold, entrepreneurial spirit and complex social and political history. The objects within embody a Both As
The cacophony of styles on display sparked a campaign against bad taste and an effort
While their work was based on ancient sources from Greece, Iran, and India, [scientists in the Islamic world] updated methods for measuring and calculating the movement of heavenly bodies, and continued to develop models of the universe and the movements of the planets within it.
occult power of the planets and stars, and thus protected the owner from sickness, bad
As Henry James remarked in 1887: “It sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when to-day we look for ‘American art’ we find it mainly in Paris.”
that they have all got the blue-green color of Monet’s impressionism and ‘got it bad
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Czech Republic, 1877–Prague, 1960 Kreis, WilhelmEltville am Rhein, Germany, 1873–Bad
the convent of Sant’Antonio da Padova, Perugia (until 1663; sold to Christina); Christina, former Queen of Sweden, Rome (1663–d. 1689; unnum. inv., ca. 1689); Cardinal Decio Azzolino, Rome (d. 1689); his nephew, marchese Pompeo Azzolino, Rome (1689–96; sold to Odescalchi); principe Livio Odescalchi, duca di Bracciano, Rome (1696–d
himself, and that the execution was carried out by an assistant; remarks on the bad
