16 15/16 × 12 13/16 in. (43 × 32.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
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Charles Wrightsman’s superb gift last year of Lorenzo Lotto’s Venus and Cupid, one
× 1 in. (39.1 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm) Classification: Blocks Credit Line: Gift of Junius
Art is full of mysteries that can’t be revealed by a quick glance. How do we see what’s hiding inside objects and learn how they were made and repaired? We use an x-ray machine, just like you’d find at the doctor’s office!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1913 (13.186.8
Aswan High Dam (1960-69), now covers this very location; the Temple of Dendur, a 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
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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Clara and Theodore Wang
A deep dive into the Met’s rich collection of contemporary photography, Pictures, Revisited reassesses the legacy of visual appropriation at the Museum and beyond.
Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017 (2017.334). © Suzy Lake
Artist Martha Rosler reflects on The Met Cloisters in this episode of The Artist Project.
Gift, 2010 (2010.245) Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York More from
