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Plomp, and Axel Rüger, with contributions by Reinier Baarsen, Marten Jan Bok, Jan
To celebrate an extraordinary gift of 125 modern and contemporary ceramics from Robert A. Ellison Jr., made to The Met in honor of the Museum’s 150th anniversary, this exhibition will present a selection of over 75 works that charts the evolution of abstraction in clay from the second half of the twentieth century through the present.
Mid-twentieth-century by artists Axel Salto, Ken Price, Toshiko Takaezu, Katherine
Münster, 1878–London, 1937
Bambi, Andrea and Axel Drecoll, with Andrea Baresel-Brand, eds.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59(1): p. 22. von Saldern, Axel. 2004
There is no record of this picture prior to its purchase between 1882 and 1884 by William Graham (1817–1885), a Glasgow merchant, major supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, and notable collector of early Italian paintings
Axel Klumpp. "Vincenzo Foppa (ca. 1430–1515/16)."
The daughter of an army sergeant, Hendrickje Stoffels advanced in Rembrandt’s household from servant (by 1649) to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist’s son Titus (1641–1668) and mother of his daughter Cornelia (1654–1685)
David Bomford, Ashok Roy, and Axel Rüger in Art in the Making: Rembrandt. Ed.
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 (Volker Manuth and Axel Rüger. London, 2004, pp. 73–87, fig. 1 (color).
Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife.
Edward’s Ready Now Now (Lynch Fragment)(1988) installed in Gallery 302 Achi: The axe-like
