Immaterial: Linen – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/immaterial-linen
Suit up as we undress the complex legacy of linen.
You have a word for “King’s wife.”
Suit up as we undress the complex legacy of linen.
You have a word for “King’s wife.”
Teaching artist Laurie Murphy discusses the Copyist Program at The Met, in which artists can apply to work directly from their artistic predecessors while in the Museum’s galleries.
Since then, countless numbers of copyists have taken personal journeys while working
The Museum provides learning experiences for kids, teens, and adults of all abilities.
Group Size A guided group must have no more than 50 individuals.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
undeniable beauty abides throughout the subtle and the radical manipulations that have
Editorial Assistant Nadja Hansen spoke with Sabine Rewald, curator of Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, to ask about her inspiration for the exhibition and the process of creating such a beautiful exhibition and catalogue.
I have the opportunity to observe this creative process, to get to know the individuals
Below the falcon, the name Horus name of Amenemhat I (wHm-msw.t) is written. The inscription above the falcon headed god reads: bHd.t(j) Di=f anx, (Horus of Edfu, may he give life). The remaining inscription probably accompanies the divine figure to the left
On View Gallery Amenemhat I, known to have been by birth from the south of Egypt
How conservators at The Met are using advanced technological resources to re-examine works of art in the Museum’s collection.
sculpture arrived in the conservation laboratory it was considered by art historians to have
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
and deposited as a huaca, a Quechua and Aymara term for a sacred being, and may have
The [Valdivia] figurines often possessed both feminine and masculine attributes, such as the breasts of a woman and the genitals of a man.
Small, solid figures of carved stone, between three and five inches high, have been