The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Tibetan monasteries and other monuments since that time, a number of masterpieces have
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 study of medieval drawings requires that we both expand and rethink our notion of what a drawing is and how it might be used.
While “Old Master” drawings have come down to us in abundance, the work of the draftsmen
Claude drew inspiration from his close, constant study of nature and changing effects of light.
His date of birth may have been as early as 1600, although 1604/5 is generally accepted
In centralized states and chiefdoms, historians were often religious or political advisors who regulated royal power, supporting or checking it as necessary.
1991) (bridge by Djimo Kouyaté) ca. 1960 Societies throughout sub-Saharan Africa have
No other great Western artist moved mentally—as El Greco did—from the flat symbolic world of Byzantine icons to the world-embracing, humanistic vision of Renaissance painting, and then on to a predominantly conceptual kind of art.
They have El Greco’s annotations in the margins.
Abandoned by 1400, Jenne-jeno left behind tells (settlement mounds) containing the remains of a once-thriving city, including funerary pots and a multitude of buried statuary.
These waterways have provided the region with a fertile floodplain and a natural
The heavy spherical element seems to have contained a projecting spike designed to
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
