Keith Christiansen reflects on the process of acquiring the extraordinary Jabach portrait.
Dyck, of course, had an active career in Britain and his portraits established the model
At 41 carats, the gemstone is the largest known natural green diamond, and is on view now at The Met.
Among many other treasures, Sloane at some point acquired a glass model of the Dresden
Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo’s practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist’s homoeroticism since his death in 1564.
works on paper by Michelangelo, including quick sketches, figure drawings after the model
This exhibition combines drawings, prints, and objects from all over Europe and the United States as they were collected by the Metropolitan Museum over a period of more than a hundred years.
For example: a sketch by one artist can serve as the model for another’s design,
Model Sporting Boat ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
With her small eyes, high cheeks, and low brow, the model recalls Marie von Goethem
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
object-based curatorial department of its kind in the United States, ESDA was a model
Initially trained as a lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one.
distinctive series of pen-and-ink drawings on the subject of the artist and his model
The later Valois kings, who unified France and strengthened its power after the Hundred Years’ War, frequently engaged in diplomacy and warfare in Italy; exposure to Italian art gradually formed their taste.
indicative of the esteem in which Pilon was held in his own time, the terracotta model
Antonio Canova is considered the greatest Neoclassical sculptor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
to have one of Canova’s working casts, Cupid and Psyche ( 05.46), a preparatory model
