The Artist: Together with Maso di Banco (for which see 43.98.13), Taddeo Gaddi was Giotto’s most celebrated pupil and assistant
The series then continues with scenes relating to the retrieval of his relics in Jerusalem
Herakleios (r. 610–41) successfully ended a long, costly war with Persia and regained Jerusalem
A new opera at The Met Cloisters reinterprets the Mexican writer’s magnum opus.
On a tour of the Cloisters in 2020, I saw a beautiful relief of Jesus entering Jerusalem
The Met’s Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection.
Istanbul, Süleymaniye complex, 1550–57, tomb of Süleyman: Photo © Daniel Walker Jerusalem
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Jerusalem, Israel. December 11-14, 2016.
Footed BowlAlong with gilded examples, the most treasured glass objects in the Islamic world were the enameled ones, which developed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Syria and Egypt under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
Mayer Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem; see Rachel Hasson.
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
HIEROSOLYMA] : DABIT : VOCEM : SVAM : φ / MOVEBVNTOR / C[A]ELV[M] : φ : TERRA (From Jerusalem
The Artist: Joachim Patinir was born in the southern Lowlands, either in Dinant or Bouvignes (southeastern Belgium). Although the date of his birth is unknown, it was probably around 1480 or 1485
life in which one is constantly striving toward the ultimate goal of the Heavenly Jerusalem
the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1889–d. 1891; sent to him by the artist on September 28, 1889); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1891–95; consigned by June 1895 to Lucien Moline (Galerie Laffitte), Paris; sold with six other paintings for fl
for a total of 310,000 marks, to Schocken]; Salman Schocken, Berlin [until 1934], Jerusalem
Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
of Palestine by undertaking a massive reconfiguring of the landscape into a new Jerusalem
