Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves – Greek – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/703054
of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have
of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
So, he’s holding a copper plate that would have been covered in a waxy kind of
An examination of the theme of idealized pairings in sub-Saharan African cultures, displaying approximately sixty works of sculpture dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century, drawn from some thirty distinct African traditions.
Couples in African Sculpture February 10–September 5, 2004 Idealized pairings have
In the late 1950s and early ’60s American photographers reinvented the documentary tradition once again. This time the subjective tradition that had emerged in the 1940s and early ’50s became a kaleidoscope through which photographers looked at the world.
Eggleston is one of the few photographers to have overcome the problem inherent in
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
Few inventions have changed the world the way paper has.
Explore The Met’s excavations at Nishapur, a city in northeastern Iran. Related material is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in galleries 452 and 453.
ninth and thirteenth centuries, at Nishapur’s peak, its population is believed to have
archaeologists, and while details of the animal head differ from object to object—some have
The rediscovery of Nimrud and its sculptures was one of the great archaeological events of the nineteenth century, and since that time the site has been recognized as one of the most important in Iraq.
period, Nimrud was home to multiple Assyrian palaces and temples, all of which have
The most musical tree in the world.
SHELL: Now you have to imagine this, this thing was twelve feet in diameter.
Found at Colle del Capitano near Monteleone di Spoleto by Isidoro Vannozzi on February 8, 1902 (Scientific American 1903, p. 385; Robinson 1906, p. 83). 1902, discovered by Isidoro Vannozzi; [purchased by Benedetto Petrangeli from I
None seems to have been used for fighting in battle.