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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
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
Objects Conservation staff collaborate with cultural heritage professionals worldwide on conservation and historic preservation projects.
Conservation staff, together with other Met and Columbia University colleagues, have
The remains discovered at Hasanlu demonstrate that it was a major local center of commerce and artistic production with close ties to other 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
Press Officer Meryl Cates sits down with Vijay Iyer to discuss the resident artist’s creative process and his upcoming performances at the Met.
resident artist—yet another daring performer in a series of resident artists that have
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
Keith Christiansen provides an update on the progress of the frame being created for the Museum’s newly acquired Jabach portrait.
Naturally, I have become concerned about the progress on the frame, which was the
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
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
