Meintest du wilden westen?
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
birds and animals ca. 4th century BCE Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild
The Van Rensselaer Hall was one of the largest and most elaborate rooms built in prerevolutionary America. The rare hand-painted English wallpaper and the magnificently carved woodwork create an elegant American Wing gallery.
jewels and precious stones, Van Rensselaer was a member of the privately owned Dutch West
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
He also sold West Indian luxury goods such as sugar, rum, molasses, and indigo.
A pendant to the official cults of the Greeks and Romans, mystery cults served more personal, individualistic attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
F 308 ca. 340–330 BCE Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of
A belief in amulets and the magical properties of stones was not relegated to the realm of the uneducated and superstitious.
In ancient, pre-Christian Egypt, wild animals frequently symbolized the powers of
Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Sankuru and Lubilash rivers in the west
the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, Paris (1889–d. 1891; sent to him by the artist on September 28, 1889); his widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam, in trust for their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1891–95; consigned by June 1895 to Lucien Moline (Galerie Laffitte), Paris; sold with six other paintings for fl
West Palm Beach, Fla. Norton Gallery and School of Art.
Medusa is a deadly and cryptic other, but she is also ubiquitous, with an undeniable energy that inspired artists to repeat her semblance and story in diverse ways across literature, lore, and art through ancient Greece, Rome, and beyond.
in southwestern Sicily—two monumental gorgoneia, one on the east and one on the west
This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
In the early sixteenth century, Antwerp was the economic hub of western Europe.
Inscription: (On scroll): . Ave . / . gracia . / . ple / na . (Hail [Mary] full of grace)Marking: Arms [on shield held by two angels, center top]: Vilanova of Castile, Catalonia, etc
"The Symbolism of the Biblical Corner Stone in the Mediaeval West."
