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
The physical embodiment of desire, these objects often display literary or symbolic representations of the pursuit or attainment of the lover.
amor crudel (cruel love): seated in a landscape, a woman wields a dagger in one hand
Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High speaks with Curator Carmen C. Bambach about the power of Michelangelo’s drawings and the artist’s savvy shaping of his own history.
Disegno gives you a continuity among mind, eye, and hand.
How does contemporary fashion engage with African dress traditions to explore Black identity?
Hand-dyed reversible cotton gabardine, crafted in Cameroon.
The rock-cut tomb chapel of Khnumhotep II, overseer of the Eastern Desert under Amenemhat II and Senwosret II, was richly decorated in paint on plaster with scenes designed both to commemorate the life of this high official and to help ensure his eternal afterlife (Newberry 1893, pp
Abisharie bends forward with his right hand extended, palm down, in a gesture of
China was reunited under the rule of the Han dynasty.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hand
Many Korean monks traveled not only to China but also to India to learn the various teachings of the Buddha.
recognizable by its seated posture, with the right leg bent over the left and the right hand
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
528 Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) China ca. 550–560 Right hand
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Experiment at interactive stations: create a drum and learn about sound; try your hand
male figure lies comfortably facing upward, supporting his head with his right hand
