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Associate Curator Femke Speelberg recounts the interesting tale of a painting based on a cartoon by Michelangelo that was almost given away by raffle in 1735.
The cartoon served as the final model for the artist Jacopo da Pontormo, who had
Rome, 1880−Paris, 1918
of a Woman (Fernande) Pablo Picasso Clay original: Paris, autumn 1909; Plaster model
The variety of media used for [Roman] inscriptions (stone, metal, pottery, mosaic, fresco, glass, wood, and papyrus) is matched by the diverse ways in which the inscriptions themselves were used.
Roman inscriptions thus became the model for all later writing in the Latin West,
Werl, Germany, 1887—Münster, 1968
Among the works on view were Léger’s Nude Model in the Studio (1912–13; Solomon R
Argostoli, Greece, 1899–Paris, 1970
and engaged coverage of the contemporary art scene, the bulletin also provided a model
“Upper and Lower Egypt are reunited by Mentuhotep II who establishes the capital at Thebes. Egypt is briefly ruled by competing dynasties from western Asia, but reunification occurs again under Ahmose I. Hatshepsut, the most powerful female ruler of pharaonic history, builds her unique funerary temple in western Thebes. After the reign of Ramesses III, Egypt’s power gradually declines, leading to the Third Intermediate Period.”
CLOSE Captions CLOSE Model of a Granary with Scribes
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Examples of his work include a close-helmet, a Colt Model 1862 police revolver, and
Traditional Bamana society was a gerontocracy governed by a council of elders, and the tòn enabled young Bamana men to organize themselves into a workforce and represent their interests to their superiors.
of governance were imported from elsewhere (such as Lunda state), the political model
The Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage lived for only thirty-six years, but he made a large impact on the French art world of the second half of the nineteenth century (see fig. 1 above, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s medallion made in tribute to him, The Met, The model for her figure has been identified as Marie-Adèle Robert, Bastien-Lepageâ
Learn about the themes explored in the exhibition „Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer.“
his earliest surviving painting, three marble sculptures, and an architectural model
