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The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harrington (1592–
Unearthing my family history through James Van Der Zee and Harvey Cook Jackson’s photography.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
Why were gold coins used as jewelry throughout the Byzantine Empire?
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection constitutes a primary part of the Museum’s collection of ephemera, and helps tell the history of popular printmaking in the United States.
Cigars Napoléon Bonaparte 1911 Card No. 55, British Wounded at the Prince of Wales
Lacking the traditions of commercial production and established markets that supported the continued growth and vitality of the Netherlandish and French industries, manufactories like the Medici, Mortlake, and Barberini workshops were dependent on the fortune of their founding patrons.
provided a model for the English king, James I, and his son Charles, Prince of Wales
The curator and art historian reflects on the significance of representation in the world of fashion.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
In this interview, author and curator Amelia Peck discusses the history of quilting in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and how these works of art have historically been misunderstood.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and belongs to the history of many cultures in the world.
Holy Island, Northumberland Thomas Girtin 1796–97 Craig Goch, Moel Hebog, North Wales
was cast by Pietro Tacca as part of a gift sent by Cosimo II to Henry, prince of Wales
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
; however, the queen, Anne of Denmark, and their son Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
