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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Clara and Theodore Wang
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
One of the most visually striking period rooms in the American Wing, the Richmond Room offers a curated suggestion of the grandeur of early-nineteenth-Âcentury domestic life for wealthy Americans.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of C.
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Piermont Morgan’s monumental gift of the Hoentschel collection of French seventeenth
How did the legendary actor Anna May Wong use fashion to define her agency and legacy?
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the
Assistant Curator Ashley Dunn explores the Museum’s deep collection of prints by Eugène Delacroix, a number of which are currently on view in the exhibitions Devotion to Drawing and Delacroix.
Cohen Gift, 2004 (2004.197). Center: Théâtre Italien, 1821.
The Artist: Cagnacci was from the town of Santarcangelo—in the Romagna region of Italy, not far from Rimini. Following his local training, he spent time in the prestigious Carracci academy in Bologna, drawing from posed models, and then went to Rome in the company of one of the great masters of Baroque painting, Guercino (he was living with Guercino in 1622)
in. (95 × 75 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Purchase, Diane Burke Gift
Braunschweig, Germany, 1889−Los Angeles, 1945
While setting out the terms of the gift, Scheyer requested that a catalogue be published
15 15/16 × 11 13/16 in. (40.5 × 30 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
Isabel Stünkel, associate curator of Egyptian Art, and Adrienne Spinozzi, assistant research curator in The American Wing, write about two hippos in The Met collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Edward S.
