Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High speaks with Curator Carmen C. Bambach about the power of Michelangelo’s drawings and the artist’s savvy shaping of his own history.
He apparently cleaned himself up, bought new clothing, and cultivated the manners
As a painter of religious pictures, mythological scenes, classical and modern history, and portraits, Rubens had a broader impact than Van Dyck. But as a portraitist, Van Dyck was far more influential, especially in England.
Similarly, a sincere emotionalism lends substance to the seemingly nervous manner
Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon announces the launch of The Met Collection API, the next step in making the Museum’s collection one of the most accessible on the internet.
To broaden the global reach of our collection, we need to make it available in a manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
I do not want to deny that I once had a special preference for [Rembrandt’s] manner
The first convincing argument for the attribution of this work to Van Borssom was made by Niemeijer in 1962, and the attribution was adopted by the Museum in 1990. In his approximately two dozen known paintings and in his numerous drawings, Van Borssom proves to have been an eclectic artist whose ideas came from a considerable variety of Dutch painters and draftsmen
plainly dependent upon cattle pictures by Paulus Potter (1625–1654), and his manner
elements on the shell—are rendered and tooled in an aggressively precise, linear manner
Neapolitan painting of the early seventeenth century is characterized by dramatic expression, emphatic naturalism, and intense chiaroscuro derived from the profound influence of Caravaggio.
produced similar narratives of the working class, but in a more satirical, biting manner
Research Assistant Lillian Bartlett Stoner details the turbulent chain of events that unfolded after the death of Alexander the Great.
his mother quietly killed several years later and buried them in Vergina, in a manner
The Painting and its History: The greatest portraitist of noblemen at the court of Philip IV in Spain, Velázquez was also a master of making vibrant likenesses, often bust-length, of less high-standing sitters
The eyes are organized in a similar manner, with lightly traced eyebrows and a definitive
seen many times in Degas’s work; observes that it "is in Degas‘ early and Watteau manner
