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Experiment at interactive stations: create a drum and learn about sound; try your hand
A Space for Art, Science, and Discovery
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.
discovered how to make images on silvered copper plates that were „drawn by the hand
Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses medlar and its significance in medieval gardens.
easily plucked, although they are still too hard and acerbic to be eaten out of hand
holding a large rectangular shield in front of his left leg; the weapon in his right hand
large rectangular shield that protects his entire body, and holding in his right hand
The tools of the early Paleolithic period were often hand axes, but in later periods
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
of Peace; Peace personified as a woman standing in a landscape holding the left hand
figure’s attributes confirm his identity: the cross held in his proper right hand
Giovanni Battista Milanesi (d. 1577) ; descended in the Covoni Milanesi family , in the same location (until at least 1674) ; [ Ugo Bardini , Florence (until at least 1963) ] ; [ Luca Fortini Gobbo , Florence (until 1967; sold to MMA) ]
Gallery 534 This Temperance is identified by the items she holds: a bridle in one hand
Since a mezzotint can be made more rapidly, and less expensively, than a line engraving (although it yields fewer impressions), it became a favorite means for the quick dissemination of timely images.
copper-plate it [the mezzotint] is done upon, when the artist first takes it into hand