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
Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
Charlot’s mural depicts the gruesome slaying of Aztec people by Spanish forces led
Features monumental art from New Guinea, Pacific islands, Australia, and Island Southeast Asia—regions united by shared Indigenous ancestry.
international expansion of slavery (referred to in the Pacific context as “blackbirding”) led
Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
long and successful career as an English teacher and choir mistress eventually led
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married six times, his decision to divorce Katherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn led
The Painting: This very unusual mixed-media picture shows a rehearsal for a ballet. The view is from a slightly elevated point above the orchestra pit; the scrolls of two double basses are just visible in the foreground, radically cropped at the bottom of the canvas
Moore’s statement about what happened to the original drawing has led to the identification
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one of the researchers on the Research Program on Picasso initiated by FABA and led
On view May 9 through August 5, 2007, the exhibition explores the Paul Poiret’s modernity in relation to and as an expression of the dominant discourses of the early twentieth century, including Cubism, Classicism, Orientalism, Symbolism, and Primitivism.
greatest innovations: "The taste for the refinements of the eighteenth century had led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Associate Director of Events at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston where she led
This work depicts the triumphal procession of the Roman general Gaius Marius, in his chariot, with the defeated African king Jugurtha, in chains, walking before him, an event that took place in 104 B.C
IB, as "Jugurtha led in triumph before the chariot of Marius".
