Embroidery with Tiger-Dragon – China – Liao dynasty (907–1125) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/70812
Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1997 Object Number: 1997.216a, b
Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1997 Object Number: 1997.216a, b
Classification: Ceramics Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.118.16a, b
political and creative centers of the Near East during the early first millennium B.C
Hasanlu’s geographic location influenced its development, and may have been a factor
Georges de La Tour’s Fortune Teller is one of the painter’s early masterpieces. It has been variously dated between 1620 and 1639, and it is most likely from the 1630s. The canvas is signed at top right: G
It has in fact been suggested that the Fortune Teller may have been a pendant to
Three conservators at The Met share what they discovered when they examined William the hippo up close.
objects, we’d only admired William through a glass case, so it was exciting to have
Along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (The Met 14.40.633), the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) is one of two exceptional paintings by Albrecht Dürer in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
Could the Salvator Mundi have served a similar purpose in Dürer’s workshop?
Curator Adela Oppenheim focuses on the architecture of The Temple of Dendur as a setting for the cultic worship of Isis.
The brothers were believed to have drowned in the Nile, a manner of death that could
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Pierre Leven, Cologne (until 1853); his sale, J.M. Heberlé, Cologne, October 4, 1853, lot 137 (to Soltykov); Prince Alexei Soltykoff, Paris (1853–d. 1859); by descent to his brother, Prince Petr Soltykov, Paris (1859–61; his sale, Drouot, Paris, April 1961, lot 835,to Russel); Mr
Paris, 1859. ill. pl. 4 (b/w). Collinot, Eugène, and Adalbert de Beaumont.