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
As early as the first century A.D., the Roman author Pliny the Elder acknowledged the appeal of unfinished works of art, stating that they are often more admired than those that are finished, because in them the artists’ actual thoughts are left visible.
professional woodcutter, who had begun his work on the upper left corner, would have
The selection of small tribal weavings from Iran, Turkey, and Transcaucasia in Portable Storage was generously given to The Met by William and Inger Ginsberg of New York. While the term „carpet“ evokes a large, heavy, rectangular floor covering Women
In the adventure illustrated here, the spies Zambur and Mahiya have been enlisted
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
Effigy mounds, earthworks in the shape of animals and birds, were raised in North America in areas that now correspond to parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio.
great mound, within the clay structure of which no culturally identifiable objects have
Caribbean islands are ceremonial axes and blades, which take many forms and may 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
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
In 2022, The Met offered for the first time a fellowship designed to bridge the worlds of curatorial practice, and the scientific study of art.
As the Met’s first 24-month Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow, I have the opportunity
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