Meintest du waldes?
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
Reclaiming Ancient Egypt in the Neighborhood’s Transit System
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Video Exhibition Tour—Arts of Africa | Michael C.
Recent acquisitions and highlights in The Costume Institute Library.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
The son of a London barber and wigmaker, Turner dominated English landscape and marine painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. He studied in the Royal Academy schools from 1789 and first showed a painting at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1796; he was elected an academician in 1802 and continued to exhibit until 1850
travelled widely on the continent—Venice, Switzerland, the Rhine—and in England and Wales
New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
The author and illustrator John Jennings discusses Seneca Village, Afrofuturism, and writing The Met’s first graphic novella.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Video Exhibition Tour—Arts of Africa | Michael C.
New York, nineteenth century
Two ball gowns that were worn to the Prince of Wales Ball held in New York during
This library comes from a red-brick Gothic Revival villa built for banker Frederick Deming (1787–1860) and his family in the hamlet of Balmville, New York. The house is a classic example of the Gothic Revival style in domestic architecture and the room is arranged to illustrate how an upper-middle-class family might have furnished their library.
ruins of Tintern Abbey, a twelfth-century monastery in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales
