“I wanted to be that commanding huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man who crossed me.”
As my wife, a poet, put it: “Athena and all those male gods are like, ‘We have to
It was during this period that the first identifiable villages developed in the region, where people farmed the land using irrigation and fished the rivers and sea.
mainly female, decorated with painted or appliqué ornament and lizardlike heads, have
On Friday, January 5, 2018, the Department of Textile Conservation hosted its Winter 2018 Colloquium, „Recent Presentations and Research.“
Conservators and fellows from all over the world have trained here.
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
Too often those in positions of power have only included others who look, live, love
C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, introduces the exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings from the Griffin Collection and discusses the process of refurbishing the Glass Gallery for the installation.
Inside the museum, we have opened the new exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings
Internships for graduate students in The Met’s Department of Objects Conservation, a dynamic and diverse department with over twenty-five full-time conservators. Interns work alongside and learn from conservators under whose supervision they carry out in-depth treatment on a broad range of materials. These internships are unpaid.
Program Information Conservation training programs around the world have various
They have large eyes with inlaid pupils, only one of which survives intact.
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
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
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
