The Met’s Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Teotihuacan Site photography by Enrique Franco Torrijos Theater
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inexpensive and it was considered a very coarse medium where like, you might go to a theater
„Corot’s Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater
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ESCOBEDO: Because they’re steps, they become a theater. It is a stage.
Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
Fernández Ledesma eloquently describes the efficacy of posters: “The poster is the theater
The Artist: The great history painter and portraitist Jacques Louis David studied with Joseph Marie Vien and then, in 1766, entered the school of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
It is also possible that he found inspiration in contemporary theater.
Circus Sideshow and Seurat’s Career: Circus Sideshow is one of only six major figure paintings Seurat created during his short but influential career. Born and raised in Paris as the son of a customs official, he pursued classical art training, including at least three years at the École des Beaux-Arts, and spent a year (1879–80) in military service in Brest before establishing himself as a professional artist in France’s capital city
„Masterpiece Theater.“ Art News 89 (Summer 1990), pp. 133–34, ill. (color).
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1866 Charles Baudelaire, Full Face, after Nadar, III Edouard Manet 1869 At the Theater
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met („Masterpiece Theater.“ Art News 89 (Summer 1990), p. 134, ill. (color).
This exhibition focuses on the main turning points in the cultural history of Kyoto from ancient to modern times.
Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, Noh theaters, workshops of painters and lacquer
