This special display of instruments made by three generations of the Sax family marks the bicentenary of the birth of Adolphe Sax. Rare saxophones, brass instruments, and an exquisite ivory clarinet are among the twenty-six instruments selected to showcase the inventions and innovations of this important family.
There are few instrument makers who have become a household name.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
Black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora and the ways Black designers have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The profound feelings that the people of Ireland have for their treasures is something
Her left hand, open with the palm up, may have held an object.
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
Fifth Avenue in Gallery 463 This huqqa base, with irises and other flowers, would have
The Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
of this monumental altarpiece that all other attributions of paintings to Hugo have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
contents About the authors Praise Of universal appeal and unique beauty, feathers have
significant presence in Chinese art for thousands of years, but those depicted here have
Byzantines might have thought the peacock an appropriate symbol for the season, because
While the vessel’s decoration suggests that it could have been used in a funerary
