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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,
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
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.
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
So many of the objects that we have in the ephemera collection can fit in one’s hand
Curator Barbara Drake Boehm looks at medieval representations of martyrs Saint Bartholomew and Saint Lawrence in honor of their August feast days.
At first glance, the saint appears to hold a tall window in one hand.
Subsequent castings and manipulations resulted in this machine-carved and hand-finished
Gardens played many roles in French society—and thus found increasing representations in art—as places for relaxation, for music and dance, for poetry and learning, for horticulture, as symbolic spaces for myth and allegory, and finally as decorative motifs.
The ceramic relief of Pomona, on the other hand, who keeps spade, rake, and watering
