What were the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance?
McBRIDE: And it was Duke Ellington who was able to make America know that we have
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
Signature: (at left) PM (engraved)Inscription: Each letter separately struck with a die, not engraved. (on upper part of rim)INCEPTANT FACINVS (QVASI NVLLVS IN ORBE SVPERSTES IAM, FORET) E LOTHO FLEBILE PROGENITÆ(on lower part of rim)NAM FOEDE PATRIVM TENTANT[A] (obliterated) TEMERARE CVBILE OBRVTA VT EST VINO MENS, RATIOQVE VIRI „Lot’s daughter attempts a disgraceful deed-(as though already no man remained on earth-)
The engraver, who must have been trained on the Continent, based his compositions
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,
Gallery 208 This life-size sculpture is part of a group of sixteen figures that have
Light brown figures with split eyes have a human aspect and the fangs of beings endowed
Both Hindustani and Karnatak music use the system of ragas—sets of pitches and small motives for melody construction—and tala for rhythm.
North India and Karnatak music of South India, although many regions of India also have
objects is found in the plaquettes that decorate the bases: The Met’s burners both 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
While earlier artists focused on creating an illusion of architectural depth with solid architectural forms, the artists at Boscotrecase presented the idea with whimsical, attenuated, and highly refined elements.
One of the most sumptuous must have been the villa at Boscotrecase built by Agrippa
