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Opening May 31, 2025, following a multiyear renovation led by WHY Architecture in
Câmpina, Romania, 1893–Bucharest, 1946, and Brăila, Romania, 1895–Bucharest, 1971
of the ideological thaw that took place in the country in the 1960s (which also led
Breslau, Poland, 1889–New York, 1945
As the Great Depression led to a decline in the Parisian art market throughout the
By the 1780s the sweeping curves of the late Baroque and the exuberant ornament of the Rococo were giving way to a renewed interest in classical precedents, which found expression in the delicate, rectilinear forms of the Neoclassical, or Federal, style.
Led by members of the Townsend and Goddard families, Newport cabinetmakers developed
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
In 1798, a French army led by General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt and occupied
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
he has appeared as expert lecturer in several documentaries and films, and has led
Varvara Nikolaevna was born on July 7, 1762. The daughter of Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727–1787) and Princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Golovina (1728–1769), she married Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1745–1798)
Greuze French ca. 1780–82 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 631 Led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
at Berkeley, she was the assistant director of the Theban Mapping Project, which led
Curator Amelia Peck and Research Associate Moira Gallagher speak to Digital about what a period room is and the benefits of publishing the research that informs them online.
the past two years, the American Wing and our team in the Digital Department have led
The Artist: Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique, beautifully exemplified in The Met’s painting of Saint Andrew by the description of the hands, the tilted book, and the dangling tassel and the refined tooling of the halo
XXXIII and XXXIV, adds a fifth panel to the series, a work in the Lederer collection
