Like a book, a handscroll is an intimate object that is held in the hands and is ideally viewed by only a few people at a time.
tales, Japanese illustrated handscrolls bring stories to life in a vivid, engaging manner
Featuring highlights of European drawing from the Robert Lehman Collection, the exhibition presents works by preeminent masters from the Renaissance to the modern age, including Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Georges Seurat, and Henri Matisse. The selection reflects The The
artist of the French Enlightenment, Jean Honoré Fragonard developed an exuberant manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
celebration of the natural world—expressed in varied forms, from the bold, graphic manner
The sitter, Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, was born to a life of poverty on October 10, 1743, in the parish of Saint-Gervais in Paris, where her father worked as a day laborer. At twenty-two, in 1766, she married her companion of several years, Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (1728–1796), of whose troupe she is said to have been a member since its formation
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
entomophilia as well as his allegiance to fashion, which had begun to embrace all manner
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
technique and descriptive powers, evident in the expression of Saint Andrew and the manner
The Artist: Simon Vouet (see fig. 1 above) is one of a number of major artists, among whom are Jusepe de Ribera, Valentin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Bartolomeo Manfredi, who worked in Rome in the immediate aftermath of Caravaggio’s death and absorbed his dramatic treatment of expressive lighting, startling naturalism, and psychologically penetrating approach to narrative subjects
In France Vouet’s “Italian� manner of lush and brilliant painting, matched
Throughout the greater part of his career Greuze made what are referred to as either study heads or expressive heads, in French called têtes d’expression. He showed paintings of the kind at every biannual Salon in which he participated, that is, from 1755 through 1765 and in 1769
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
Possibly between 1787-1790, acquired by Sir William Hamilton (British Envoy and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples), Naples; from the late 1780’s to 1801, possibly in the collection of Sir William Hamilton; 1801-1917, vase and lid probably in the possession of the Hope Family, at Deepdene, Surrey, England (1801-1831 with Thomas Hope; 1831-1862 with Henry Thomas Hope; 1862-1877 with Mrs
joins lid of 17.230.14 ca. 540 BCE Calyx-krater, fragments Attributed to the manner
Reception Room (Qa’a)This interior, a splendid example of a wood-paneled reception chamber (qa‘a) from a private house in Damascus, is among the earliest extant, nearly complete interiors of its kind, dated by an inscription to A
A Ninth-Century Miss Manners: Dining Etiquette in Abbasid Iraq Looking toward the
