In the first millennium CE, several communities in the northern highlands of Peru shared a distinctive tradition that is known today as the Recuay.
Then the surfaces to be darkened may have been covered by an organic substance that
During the Late Bronze Age, Cyprus was also an important center for the manufacture of works of art that show an amalgam of local and foreign influences. Stylistic features and iconographic elements borrowed from Egypt, the Near East, and the Aegean are often mixed together in Cypriot works.
as the end of the ninth millennium B.C., when the first permanent settlers may have
the traces of their owners; several examples in the Metropolitan’s collections have
They have large eyes with inlaid pupils, only one of which survives intact.
The author and illustrator John Jennings discusses Seneca Village, Afrofuturism, and writing The Met’s first graphic novella.
All three of these figures are Black comic-book characters that have experienced
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The donors and The Met have agreed that these carefully preserved instruments must
Former High School Interns Nichole, Aly, and Gabby discuss their experience managing a Teens Take The Met activity.
Teens witnessing a projection of the colors that would have originally been on The
G. R. Schmidt, Lima, until 1929; [The Brummer Gallery, New York, 1929–1948]; Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck, New York, 1948–1994; (Sotheby’s Sale 6562, May 17, 1994); private collection, New York, May 1994–2020
Two prominent carved circular voids may have once held attachments or inlays: one
?Jean Dollfus, Paris (in 1908); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 20, 1985, no. 64 [Trinity in present (engaged) frame, but surmounting a Crucifixion], attributed to Alegretto Nuzi, for Fr 280,000 to Wildenstein; [Wildenstein, Paris and New York, 1985–89]
The frame may have been made for one of these copies.
The Essential Art of African Textiles, Design Without End
body as apparel; and a series of the impressive voluminous robes and tunics that have
