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.
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
male figure lies comfortably facing upward, supporting his head with his right hand
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Experiment at interactive stations: create a drum and learn about sound; try your 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
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
Italian commedia dell’arte is shown consuming spaghetti, once held in his right hand
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published in 1795 The soldier moving his pike horizontally across the palm of his left hand
J. Kenneth Moore, Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Jayson Kerr Dobney. Musical Instruments: Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. First Printing. © 2015 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Held upright on its spike, it is bowed with the right hand in a palm-up position,
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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