The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
It had strong ties to the schools that had grown up on the Left Bank of the Seine
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Boat 1910s–1930s East Flagler Street Showing Hotel Halcyon and First National Bank
Curator Diana Craig Patch discusses how the Temple of Dendur and other monuments of Nubia were saved, and how the temple made its way to The Met.
He chose this location in Lower Nubia along the west bank of the Nile (south of modern-day
Cool off this summer with an air-conditioned tour of all the water features at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Dendur is situated next to a reflecting pool evoking its location along the western bank
Signature: [in black chalk at lower right]: JvR [interlaced].Inscription: [on verso at lower left in pencil]: J.d.V. / SR xoo.Marking: verso lower left collectors‘ mark of A
1628/29–1682 Amsterdam) mid-17th century A Forest Marsh with Travelers on a Bank
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America.
Budapest, 1869–Budapest, 1934
Nemes and Herzog likely met for the first time by 1912 at Budapest’s Commercial Bank
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America.
Meryl Cates, coordinator of marketing for Met Museum Presents, highlights The Temple of Dendur’s relocation from Egypt to the Met, and how the beloved artifact inspired the upcoming opera production, I Was Here I Was I.
The Temple of Dendur—built between 22–10 b.c. in Nubia, on the west bank of the
The city of Ctesiphon was located on the east bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles
