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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.
However, Raleigh seems to have been a writer of stories and novels by profession.
Learn more about the history of painted details on early Cycladic marble figures in the Leonard N. Stern Collection.
Works made of stone and clay may have survived, but countless other forms of expression
Learn more about the history of painted details on early Cycladic marble figures in the Leonard N. Stern Collection.
Other pigments, like cinnabar, may have been applied more sparingly due to their
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How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord.
And so not only did you have a physically engineered singer, you also had one who
Curators Jayson Kerr Dobney and Bradley Strauchen-Scherer explain how they leveraged The Met’s strengths to tell rich stories about musical instruments in the Museum’s recently opened galleries.
What does it mean that all seventeen curatorial departments in the Museum have things
Although no signs of houses were found [in Wadi Kubbaniya], diverse and sophisticated stone implements for hunting, fishing, and collecting and processing plants were discovered around hearths.
northwest of Aswan in Upper Egypt, some interesting sites of the kind described above have
What is new to Northern art of the time is Gossart’s introduction of mythological themes with nude figures portrayed with heightened eroticism.
comments by contemporary artists concerning Gossart’s reputation, he is said to have
Keith Christiansen discusses the presence of Charles Le Brun in his portrait of the banker Everhard Jabach and his family.
dealing with the structural issues of Charles Le Brun’s great family portrait, I have
