The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Additional support is provided by Bank of America, The Sam and Janet Salz Trust,
Africa, exhibition
that paid tribute to leaders from the vast grass plains extending from the east bank
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.”
Many American artists stayed together, and enclaves of them developed on the Left Bank
Integrating calligraphy, poetry, and painting, scholar-artists for the first time combined the “three perfections” in a single work.
century Narcissus Zhao Mengjian mid-13th century Poet strolling by a marshy bank
In the still small but gay and colorful pavilion devised by Le Vau, now his favorite architect, the young sovereign surrounded himself with sensuous Italian or Flemish cabinets.
Manufacture Royale des Meubles de la Couronne, at the Hotel des Gobelins on the left bank
Childe Hassam
The exhibition is made possible by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and The Bank of
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Color the Temple, a tool that uses projected light to digitally restore color on The Temple of Dendur.
of Dendur was originally located on an ancient site south of Aswan in the West Bank
This library comes from a red-brick Gothic Revival villa built for banker Frederick
Equitable Insurance Company, and in 1840 he was elected as the president of the Union Bank
Explore this gracious Stair Hall designed by the newly formed New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White for the Buffalo home of Erzelia Stetson Metcalfe.
at the terminus of the Erie Canal, he later established Buffalo’s First National Bank
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Dunkle Materie: Braques Schwarz’, exhibition catalogue essay, Georges Braque, Bank
