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Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya India, Bihar, Nalanda monastery late 10th–11th century Model
Accession Number: 1992.165.21 Ewer with Elephant-Headed Spout late 2nd–3rd century Model
bronze’s popular title, "Black Venus," reflects the rarity of using an African model
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
contemporaries would have referred to this intense and affecting close-up of a model
Bonnard explicitly admitted that he could only paint the familiar. The rituals of daily life—taking tea, feeding the cat, tending to the dinner table—were his subjects.
Only when he felt a deep familiarity with his subject—be it a human model or a modest
Early portraits of Shakespeare preserve his appearance for posterity, while copies and variations indicate how perceptions of the poet-playwright shifted across later generations.
makers 1827 William Shakespeare Multiple artists/makers 1827 Roubiliac with the Model
This installation by Dan Graham (born 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Roof Garden. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham’s structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade.
Exposure—Graham’s 1995 proposal for an exhibition in Germany (represented here by a model
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Sulayman Al-Jazuli: Dala’il al’Khayrat Prayer Book early 19th century Les Paul Model
Entombment Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (Italian, Trent 1470–1532 Padua) model
1904−Palm Springs, Calif., 1988
During this time he also met his future wife, Odile Arnould, a French model who had
