Headrest – Sidaama peoples (?) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314863
middle by two holes on the side and bottom, through which a carrying strap would have
middle by two holes on the side and bottom, through which a carrying strap would have
What were the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance?
McBRIDE: And it was Duke Ellington who was able to make America know that we 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
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
Folio from the Anonymous Bagdad Qur’anThis illuminated folio and folio no. 55.44 come from different sections of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of calligraphy and book production in the Islamic world
Possible candidates have included Sultan Ghazan (r. 1295–1304); his successor,