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MARK DOTY: I think it’s the quality of emotion; that it’s suffused with feeling.
Conservator Lucretia Kargère discusses two twelfth-century sculptures in the Museum’s collection that have been reunited at The Met Cloisters on the occasion of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
The Virgin’s face is implacable, tight-lipped, without emotion, and the features
The Amati workshop was one of the finest violin ateliers in Europe, training many apprentices who went on to careers as important instrument builders, possibly including the young Antonio Stradivari.
aesthetic emerged in western Europe, emphasizing the soloist’s ability to express emotion
Korean genre paintings, particularly from the eighteenth century, are esteemed for their candid, realistic representations of Joseon society and are considered by many as among the most “Korean” of all Korean art forms.
attention to each individual, providing him or her with a specific countenance and emotion
In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought.
With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response
Curator Isabel Stünkel and Research Associate Kei Yamamoto tell the story of how The Met’s beloved unofficial mascot, William the Hippo, got his name.
caddie, and lost me five new balls and a medal competition, and not a flicker of emotion
Throughout the greater part of his career Greuze made what are referred to as either study heads or expressive heads, in French called têtes d’expression. He showed paintings of the kind at every biannual Salon in which he participated, that is, from 1755 through 1765 and in 1769
nineteenth or early twentieth century when expressions of this kind of highly wrought emotion
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1912. „Early Attic Vase.“ Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7(4): pp. 68–71.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p
man—are not well integrated in this early representation, but the creature shows emotion
The image of the head or face can have the capacity to instruct, but in certain forms it can possess a special power to protect, to heal, or even do harm.
only central to identity, but is also the primary vehicle for human expression, emotion
Viewed by Academicians and art critics as an artist’s personal reaction to a subject, the sketch was considered to be a sign of genius and originality.
Delacroix (1798–1863) and Théodore Gericault (1791–1824) sought to convey sincerity of emotion
