The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Robert Lehman must have considered illuminations above all an extension of his great
Florentine woodcuts were generally shaded with parallel lines that give a sense of depth and sculptural form.
fifteenth century and was responsible for the “bonfire of the vanities” that may have
dressed, polychromed wood sculpture of the Virgin and Child, is traditionally held to have
Director Thomas P. Campbell reflects on the acquisition of Charles Le Brun’s magnificent portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
Trustee Emerita Jayne Wrightsman, whose contributions over the past forty years have
“Numerous large architectural complexes exist in the coastal valleys and highlands of Peru. They are used periodically for civic and ritual activities by regional populations living in hamlets and villages of up to several hundred inhabitants. In the first part of the millennium, Chavín de Huantar in the north-central highlands is an influential site. A related set of visual images spreads as far north as Puerto Eten near the modern town of Chiclayo, and as far south as the Nazca Valley drainage. Perhaps based on similar ideologies, its images and symbols appear on local ceramics, textiles, gold, and stone work.”
previously unrelated cultures on the northern Peruvian coast and in the highlands have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The methods of excavation in the first third of this century have been surpassed
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
additional works by the artist and also of several buildings by architects who have
Featuring more than fifty spectacular kimono dating from the eighteenth century to the present day, this exhibition tells a story about the Japanese garment whose designs mirror trends in pictorial and decorative arts of every era.
Fifth Avenue September 27, 2014–January 19, 2015 The Arts of Japan Galleries have
Ostad Elahi was a renowned Persian musician, thinker, and jurist whose transformative work in the art of tanbūr—an ancient, long-necked lute—paralleled his innovative approach to the quest for truth and self-knowledge. This exhibition documents the interdependent, mutually transformative relationship between player and instrument through a presentation of nearly forty rare instruments and works of art.
Long-necked, plucked stringed instruments have been used in central and western Asia
The archaeology of rubbish.
I think, you know, we have a culture that’s outta sight outta mind when it comes
