This exhibition explores the many uses of landscape in the Chinese visual arts, offering more than 120 landscape paintings in four rotations.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979 (1979.439a–o
The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs.
cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift
× 1 in. (39.1 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm) Classification: Blocks Credit Line: Gift of Junius
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Charles Wrightsman’s superb gift last year of Lorenzo Lotto’s Venus and Cupid, one
Inscription: [Lettered title and publication information relating that this is issue number 9, the editor was Xavier Guerrero (co-founder with Siquieros), the date July 1924 and other details
: 9 3/16 × 18 5/16 in. (23.3 × 46.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
16 15/16 × 12 13/16 in. (43 × 32.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
Said to be from Idalium, Cyprus (A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection…, 1903, vol. 3, pt. 2, pl. LXXVIII, 1) Between 1865 and 1872, excavated in Idalium, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola; afterwards, collection of L
mold Dimensions: diameter 2 1/2in. (6.3cm) Classification: Glass Credit Line: Gift
Inscription: Lettered in plate below margin: ‚STANZA DE VENTI NEL TEATRO DI BELVEDERE DI FRASCATI CON LA FAMOSA FONTANA DEL MONTE PARNASO CON APOLLINO ET LE MVSE CHE SVONANO CON INSTRUMENTI HIDRIAVLICI Á FORZA D’ACOVA ARCHITETTURA DI GIACOMO DELLA PORTA / Gio
31.8 × 23.5 cm) Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture Credit Line: Gift
Aswan High Dam (1960-69), now covers this very location; the Temple of Dendur, a gift
