The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
bass, and drums; the thrilling innovations and expanded instrumentation musicians have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
In these works his colors have narrowed to neutral grays, blues, and rusts, or to
Cameos were, and still are, especially prized when the artist manipulated the strata of the stone in relation to the design, exploring the stone’s depths to enhance its visual impact.
The practice seems to have been rooted in the ancient Mesopotamian stones that were
This would have permitted the head to rotate from side to side when the object was
Photographer Harvey Wang describes capturing a dialogue between space, art, and visitors in The Met’s Engelhart Court.
Skip to main content I grew up in New York City, in Southeast Queens, and I would have
The exhibition „Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures,“ the first of its kind, features nearly 50 of these tiny treasures.
Buy Now Small in scale, yet teeming with life, miniature boxwood carvings have
the exterior of the rest is highly polished, the rough interior of these rings have
While the general form of the rest appears to have been turned on a lathe, the uneven
Many contemporary objects manifest the attendant risks and potential joys of bearing offspring.
may also help to recall to young men how often profligates and hopeless prodigals have
Keith Christiansen takes a closer look at some of the objects in the Museum’s recently acquired Jabach portrait.
residence, there’s a lot to catch your eye; we see a number of things the family must have
