Curator Keith Christiansen introduces readers to a new addition to The Met’s collection of European Paintings: Stefano da Verona’s The Crucifixion.
pitched forward while four small angels—their bodies tapering off to form arcs of emotion—appear
The artists worked principally in the Northeast, away from urban centers; most spent their careers moving from place to place courting local audiences.
reticent sitters eager to record a likeness but shy of declaring personality and emotion
“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”
a lot of people cutting grain, but he uses the grain geometrically, to make an emotion
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the core of individual identity, and the primary vehicle for human expression, emotion
Sir Edward Burne-Jones British 1879 Not on view Burne-Jones conveys deep emotion
Hear how taking care of medieval tapestries offers personal solace and hope from Textile Conservator, Kisook Suh.
I didn’t know how to deal with this emotion, very hard emotion that I was going through
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
increasingly from more objective naturalistic landscape to landscape imbued with human emotion
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Stylized faces and figures became more individualized, and the infinite range of human emotion
In his anger over her unpatriotic display of emotion, Horatius kills her on the spot
Leonardo’s curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him. He was constantly observing, experimenting, and inventing, and drawing was, for him, a tool for recording his investigation of nature.
The effect of his statement causes a visible response, in the form of a wave of emotion
