The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Tiffany Glass Company was the largest producer of stained-glass windows in the nation
The curator and art historian reflects on the significance of representation in the world of fashion.
Born in Alberta, Canada, and a member of the Siksika Nation, Bear Robe has spent
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
silver and jewelry collections, as well as the exhibition, Silversmiths to the Nation
Thousands of women employed paintbrushes and china paints and decorated ceramic objects for their homes, as gifts, and for sale.
As the nation became more affluent toward the mid-century, the demand for luxury
In the still small but gay and colorful pavilion devised by Le Vau, now his favorite architect, the young sovereign surrounded himself with sensuous Italian or Flemish cabinets.
nine years at the borders of France, severely straining all the resources of the nation
The elaborate folio-sized publication was the first anthology-type book dedicated to British furniture design, and could grace the shelves of the gentleman’s library alongside publications from the Continent.
the ideals of Chippendale’s prospective clients, his colleagues, and the British nation
The coins found at Nishapur reflect the rise and fall of dynasties in the early Islamic period.
reference to the Buyid ruler whose name contains the words “celestial sphere of the nation
While the interpretation of American Neoclassicism differed from one Atlantic coast city to the next, it typically drew from common sources.
to patriotic consumers celebrating the United States’s emergence as a powerful nation
European artists from the Renaissance onward have visualized the known world through allegorical figures derived from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman personifications.
America’s fight for independence as it demonstrated the connection between the nation
Showcasing masterworks of brush-inscribed Japanese texts, some serving as independent works of art and others enhanced by decorated papers or by paintings, this exhibition takes a close look at the original gestural movement marked in each work—the applied pressure, speed, and rhythm that are said to reflect the artist’s state of mind.
have prostitutes played such a prominent and important part in the culture of a nation
