The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
richly illustrated book provides insight into the visionary figures and events that led
They broke new ground through their independent lifestyles and emphasis on career over marriage and motherhood.
Her sustained interest in promoting and collecting American art led in 1930 to the
In performance, Nō’s austere bare stage and the severe elegance of its powerful masks combine with the multiple layers of shimmering costume to give the actor an oversized sculptural presence as he moves with the music and chanting of the chorus.
late Edo period, collecting and cataloguing became an intellectual concern and led
With the rise of the transatlantic trade through the seventeenth into nineteenth centuries, ivory became among the most valuable African natural resources desired by Western industry.
Kongo ivory sculptors’ renowned skill combined with the high market value of ivory led
Beginning with Augustus, the emperors of the imperial period made full use of [sculpture’s] potential as a tool for communicating specific ideologies to the Roman populace.
This trend toward realism eventually led to the characteristic styles of the second
During the earliest years of European expansion onto the American continents, the search for gold was one of the driving factors in the exploration and colonization of the vast lands.
This evidence, and the prospect of much more, led Columbus to believe that the shipwreck
American painters recorded everyday life as it changed around them, capturing the temperament of their respective eras, defining the character of people as individuals, citizens, and members of ever-widening communities.
William Sidney Mount, who led the way, and his contemporaries favored depictions
They shared a recognition of landscape as an independent subject, a determination to exhibit such paintings at the conservative Salon, and a mutually reinforcing pleasure in nature.
the Forest of Fontainebleau in his early years, but his preference for water soon led
The ongoing construction of [Kassite] (elite) identity was a thoughtful response to the historical traditions of Mesopotamia on the one hand, and contemporary internationalizing trends on the other.
These raids led to the collapse of the Kassite dynasty in 1155 B.C.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led
