Meintest du essen?
Keith Christiansen discusses the presence of Charles Le Brun in his portrait of the banker Everhard Jabach and his family.
Or is something else at work here?
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
But above all else, she considers herself an activist, seeking to share untold stories
In a flush of optimism following the Civil War, a group of businessmen, civic leaders, and artists determined to found an art museum in New York City. They took the first concrete step toward this goal on April Making We Scheduled The In These Above
charge of the Museum’s textile collection in 1906, it was rich in lace but little else
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
Sass, Else Kai.
Septimius Severus advised Caracalla to “enrich the soldiers and despise everyone else.â
Keith Christiansen takes a closer look at some of the objects in the Museum’s recently acquired Jabach portrait.
Far more interesting to me is the fact that the painter, far more than anyone else
Suit up as we undress the complex legacy of linen.
I was like, ‘first off before we do anything else, has there been anything identified
[Pablo Picasso’s] prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages. His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism.
with a group of modernist poets, writers, and artists who gathered at the café Els
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
: "it’s something to make trees seem at one with the cosmos, but it’s something else
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
Olaudah Equiano, 1789 A dandy is defined as someone who “studies above everything else
