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The Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
Punnett Endowment Fund, Marquand and Charles B.
Moroni’s portrait of the Bergamasque professor Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584) is one of his finest works from the 1550s. Bonghi is shown seated on a Savonarolan-style chair with a book in his left hand, gazing toward the viewer, and with a cityscape through the window beyond
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Venetian Paintings."
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
The griffins on these rather small dress ornaments have a feline body with heads
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
A new generation of painters brought a greater naturalism, and with it an elevated esteem, to the genre [of still-life painting].
The latter was considered by contemporaries as outrageous for a scene that was to have
We can speculate about some of Wah’s duties thanks to a set of wooden models that were probably made during his lifetime as part of the burial equipment of his employer, Meketre.
He must have been told countless times of the heroic deeds of Nebhepetre and his
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The authors have included a systematic description of the intricate construction
Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel and intern Sarah Nankivell discuss recent CT scans of objects in the Museum’s collection, made possible by a collaboration between the Department of Egyptian Art and the NYU Langone Medical Center Department of Radiology.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Funds from various donors, 1886 (86.1.50a,b)
