Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla – Roman – Severan – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253592
Septimius Severus advised Caracalla to “enrich the soldiers and despise everyone else.â
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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
[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
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
Explore the life and work of Jonathan King, one of the nineteenth century’s most important producers of valentines.
was, after all, a pretty one, and it is a pity that it should die out, for what else
Curator Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide on the reconsideration of European decorative arts.
Let’s find something else.
From a room above the chapter house of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, near Hortigüela, Burgos, Spain (sold by the government in the nineteenth century); Private Collection ; [ Sr. Colominas, Barcelona (sold 1931)]
"Les pintures de San Pedro de Arlanza i els bestiaris anglesos del 1200."
Renowned pipa player Wu Man returns to The Met to perform Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with The Knights.
traditional solo repertoire, but I was always interested in playing with someone else
Occasionally, the close scrutiny of early Netherlandish paintings yields quite another finding—that portraits of figures, and sometimes figures in their entirety, were reworked or initially painted by a different hand.
How else may we explain the addition of the arched latticework and grape arbor to
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
Netherlands, probably in Antwerp, at the end of the fifteenth century, but little else