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.
overview of many aspects of the theme of the exhibition and, at the same time, has led
Historic paper dolls from the Drawings and Prints collection tell a story of conspicuous consumption and evolving social values.
A particular favorite was a paper carriage, led by a driver and two horses, carrying
women and their activities predominate in the imagery of the Begram ivories has led
In one remarkable decade, Sargent gained acclaim with bold portraits and figure paintings that challenged artistic conventions.
critiques of his art for prestigious journals, which bolstered his reputation and led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
ensembles paving “the future for classical music in America” (Los Angeles Times)—led
According to Giorgio Vasari, The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the artist’s greatest late works, was painted for the Florentine Giovanni Borgherini. The biographer described the subject of the painting as „the Virgin, an infant St
states that the motif of Saint John the Baptist holding the terrestrial globe has led
Explore The Met’s excavations at Nishapur, a city in northeastern Iran. Related material is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in galleries 452 and 453.
held the ceramics as they were fired, 1939 A series of mounds at this location led
Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo’s practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist’s homoeroticism since his death in 1564.
book, Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society (1986), which led
