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Creative risks. Artistic choices. Leaps of imagination and ventures for profit. The Met’s wide-ranging collection of British art and design from 1500 to 1900 captures a bold, entrepreneurial spirit and complex social and political history. The objects within embody a Both As
Colonial development advanced in North America and the West Indies, where native
The legends that grew up around him hold that both his conception and birth were miraculous.
€“11th century Plaque with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha India (Bihar or 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.
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
"The ‚Wild Beasts‘: Fauvism and Its Affinities," September 11–October 31, 1976,
The theme of divinities controlling and nurturing wild animals derives from the Near
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
View an assortment of images of fashion ensembles presented in the exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion.
West Wall "Camp is the psychopathology of affluence."
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
How is Black dandyism integral to Black identity and the history of fashion?
Enslaved in West Africa at the age of eleven, he was transported to the Caribbean
