The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Hellenistic capital, appointed with important civic institutions—a great library, theater
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Versace’s visions of costumes for the opera and the dance, all of which are pure theater
St. Petersburg, 1872–Paris, 1950
early twentieth-century Paris, inspiring the work of visual artists, composers, and theater
Ringmaster, publicist, and performer in a highly theatrical life, the legendary Nadar wore many hats—those of journalist, bohemian, left-wing agitator, playwright, caricaturist, and aeronaut.
jokes and stories, all served his photography, which he understood to be a private theater
The city’s architecture, which is inflected by its geographic position and by the particular conditions of a maritime environment, and the wealth and richness of its painting, sculpture, and decoration attracted ever larger numbers of visitors.
In addition to the fine arts, music, and theater, gambling ( 1997.117.5), and other
São Paulo, 1869–Rio de Janeiro, 1943
and funding the Semana, a diverse three-day exhibition in São Paulo’s Municipal Theater
Like a theater scrim, it would have set off the scenes of Chinese life.
displayed together in public spaces such as the forum of a city, a basilica, or the theater
Ancient Greek religious practice, essentially conservative in nature, was based on time-honored observances, many rooted in the Bronze Age (3000–1050 B.C.), or even earlier.
important deities were Aphrodite, the goddess of love; Dionysos, the god of wine and theater
Geometric abstraction, through the Cubist process of purifying art of the vestiges of visual reality, focused on the inherent two-dimensional features of painting.
Bauhaus encompassed different disciplines: painting, graphic arts, stage design, theater
