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Bacchante and Infant Faun, a work most frequently associated with the scandal that led
Occasionally, the close scrutiny of early Netherlandish paintings yields quite another finding—that portraits of figures, and sometimes figures in their entirety, were reworked or initially painted by a different hand.
same period (that is, the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries) has often led
Stand for a Qur’an Manuscript (Rahla) A masterpiece of design, this carved book stand, or rahla, is made from a single slab of teak and is framed by inlays composed of various woods in shades of brown and black
century onward, the increasing polarization of the Sunni and Shi‘a communities led
apprenticeship in 1927 with the renowned Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi led
In Bloemaert’s version of the Old Testament subject (Exod. 17:1–6), the children of Israel march out of Egypt either naked or provocatively dressed, and weighed down with earthenware pots, copper-lined cookware, and, in the arms of the young woman at center, a silver-gilt ewer dating from the late sixteenth century
That graceful figure’s prominence led Broos (1990) to suggest that the artist’s subject
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its Golden Age, under the emperor Justinian, the wealth and power of Byzantium led
The Renaissance Revival Room comes from the „princely mansion“ built for Jedediah Wilcox and his wife Henrietta. This fashionable rear parlor, or sitting room, with its coordinating architectural details and richly ornamented decoration, includes its original suite of furniture.
The citizens of Meriden, led by their mayor, attempted to rescue the mansion with
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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
sent a special advance team of researchers and a photographer to China in 1979, led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
–led occupation following World War II, considering the perspective of Japanese artists
