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the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection through first-hand
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12th century One of the Four Heavenly Kings Japan late 11th–early 12th century Hand
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probably Milan ca. 1570 Breastplate Italian ca. 1490 Gauntlet Cuff for the Right Hand
Conservator Lucretia Kargère discusses two twelfth-century sculptures in the Museum’s collection that have been reunited at The Met Cloisters on the occasion of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Detail views of the Morgan Madonna’s left hand and garments (top and bottom left)
Italian piety and Italian art of the late Middle Ages and after tended to stress the Incarnation narrative, the sequence of events surrounding his birth, and the events of the Passion, the sufferings of his final week on earth.
reverence for the holy family is evident as the youngest Magus clasps Joseph’s hand
The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments.
On the one hand, polyphony or multivoiced music, with its horizontal contrapuntal
Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
Nectanebo’s Egyptian name, Nakhthorheb: nakht, the sword held in the king’s left hand
Watch a playlist of fifteen automata, clocks, writing machines, and more.
He beats his chest in penitence and regularly lifts his left hand toward his lips
Showcasing masterworks of brush-inscribed Japanese texts, some serving as independent works of art and others enhanced by decorated papers or by paintings, this exhibition takes a close look at the original gestural movement marked in each work—the applied pressure, speed, and rhythm that are said to reflect the artist’s state of mind.
essential component of the upbringing of every young gentleman or lady, and a practiced hand
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market third quarter 18th century Dress panel Hector Guimard ca. 1900 [Man with Hand
