Some artists have been included on the basis of posthumous evidence or inference
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Salvant is joined by two instruments that would have accompanied the air in its premiere
Because many of these works have either only recently been excavated or have never
The largest number of drawings and prints by the beloved sixteenth-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder ever assembled
Bruegel’s drawings ever assembled and reflects recent advances in scholarship that have
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
PanelOne of the most fascinating and mysterious objects of early Islamic art in the Museum’s collection, this wood panel was acquired in 1937 from the dealer Paul Mallon in Paris
, had it been a cenotaph (tabut, in Arabic),[3] this decorated wooden box would have
Curator Stephan Wolohojian announces the hanging of the extraordinary Jabach portrait in gallery 617 following ten months of conservation work.
The assembled frame would have been too large to ship across the Atlantic, so it
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
