Current Met fellows share brief presentations on their research while exploring related scholarly questions.
and Mary Ellen Ritter Memorial Fund Fellow, The Costume Institute Machine-Made, Hand-Finished
This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions
Skip to main content With its hand-colored illustrations, this splendid book is
Page 3, "No. 16– The house and shop on the left hand side of the street have been
He would have held a reed brush in his right hand and would have unrolled the papyrus
Costume (recto); a small, fragmentary sketch of a recumbant boy, probably by a later hand
tpore iepte; P1amus p1mus / Rex troyag / fuit eodem tpore; Elena (and in another hand
Each tea gathering is a unique experience, so a particular assemblage of objects and people is never repeated.
Bizen ware, on the other hand, is known for its deep reddish to blackish brown color
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl) Amhara or Tigrinya peoples 15th–16th century Hand
Between 1845 and 1865, acquired by Reverend Charles William King; until 1878, collection of Rev. C. W. King, Cambridge, England; 1878, purchased by John Taylor Johnston from Rev. C. W. King; 1878-1881, collection of John Taylor Johnston, New York; acquired in 1881, gift of John Taylor Johnston
In his right hand, he holds a stick-like object that has a round knob at one end
With its delicate hand-punched pattern, it questions the requisites of clothing,
