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 wrapping with linen changed forever the shape of the human body and created a new being of divine character that was believed to be able to live forever.
The Mummification Process The mummification of King Tutankhamun’s body may have been
Italian Renaissance artists became anatomists by necessity, as they attempted to refine a more lifelike, sculptural portrayal of the human figure.
field, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Michelangelo (1475–1564), who are known to have
What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?
Because, you know, as an Egyptian, I should have known, but I think this also speaks
Poussin brought a new intellectual rigor to the classical impulse in art, as well as a unique, somewhat reticent poetry.
systems of belief—pagan, Jewish, Christian, Stoic, pantheistic—Poussin seems to have
Brass commemorative heads are commissioned by each oba (king) in the first years of his reign to honor his immediate predecessor.
However, since these heads document a unique historical narrative, scholars have
reproduced with a tool and visible in many cultures and times, this symbol may have
reproduced with a tool and visible in many cultures and times, this symbol may have
Some researchers have suggested that these figures may be depictions of lizards or
