House of Chanel – Evening dress – French – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/108521
By using the virtuoso hand-sewn details of the couture as both structural and decorative
By using the virtuoso hand-sewn details of the couture as both structural and decorative
Judith Ogden Thomson , Princeton, N.J. (1986–1996; sale, Christie’s, New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, June 5, 1986, lot 3, as „A Neolithic basin,“ to private collection; her gift to her son; on loan to MMA 1986–1996); Private collection , New York (1996–present; on loan to MMA 1996–present)
On the outside wall, "hand" motifs are painted in a natural, fluid brush line; on
In honor of WorldPride NYC and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore the history of camp culture’s trademark, the gesture known as „the camp pose.“
One arm is bent from the hip and the hand is turned back, which signals both power
Rubens and van Dyck are among the finest draftsmen of all times. The works they left behind probably count, respectively, some 700 and 200 sheets.
Such drawings were not merely exercises for the hand and eye: they provided a rich
From an imperial villa in Boscotrecase, near Pompeii (Santini 1905; Alexander 1929). 1903-4, excavated by Ernesto Santini from an imperial villa on his property at Boscotrecase; from 1904, collection of E
One hand appears to be chained to the crag; the other elegantly placed on the rocks
the book at a later date, a suggestion supported by the presence of writing in a hand
In [Tiepolo’s] hands, the informal oil sketch was raised to a primary art form, worthy
times seamlessly transforming painted figures into three dimensions by realizing a hand
Made and used throughout the Pacific, musical instruments play integral roles in contexts ranging from religious rites to secular entertainment.
When playing, the musician holds the drum in one hand and strikes the head with the
Renowned pipa player Wu Man returns to The Met to perform Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with The Knights.
learned by oral tradition, and then in the later nineteenth century, a pipa master hand-notated
On the back of this rectangular ivory panel, a raised rim surrounds a smooth, recessed compartment, displaying the vertical orientation of the ivory grain. The recessed field provided an area for the panel to receive a thin sheet of wax that could be used as an erasable writing surface
The woman displays the many pieces she has captured, but her right hand, raised in