The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
presents the art of three large areas of the world where vital cultural traditions have
Along with the traditional hand-wrought objets d’art that had always been made as special commissions for elite clientele, production broadened to include ordinary dinner services, tea sets, and domestic implements such as light fixtures and writing tools.
sterling mark, showed that the piece had been tested at the assay office and found to have
Joseph Dufour (1782/84–1787; sold to des Rasins) ; Jean Paul André des Rasins, marquis de Saint Marc (1787–d. 1818) ; Catherine de Ségur (until d. 1847) ; Marie de Saint-Marc (Mme. de Larose) (until 1861; sold to Hospices de Bordeaux) ; Hospices Civils de Bordeaux ; M
Gallery 547 The Museum’s delightful small and intimate room is believed to have
Headrest Shona artist late 19th–mid 20th century Not on view Shona sculptors have
The buildings around the Hippodrome have been condensed and slightly rearranged to
Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, asks Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel and Conservator Ann Heywood to answer a letter addressed to William the Hippo.
questions, like what we would save in an emergency, or how many works of art do we have
Eight different creatures inhabit the seven blocks of this enchanting carved archway. All but two come from the imagination, merging parts of different animals found in nature. Beginning at far left, we see a manticore, a fantastic creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion
view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 07 This intricately carved arch is said to have
Hear how taking care of medieval tapestries offers personal solace and hope from Textile Conservator, Kisook Suh.
Like, oh, this must have happened to you.
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
