Two-handled Jar – Roman Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573670
While the vessel’s decoration suggests that it could have been used in a funerary
While the vessel’s decoration suggests that it could have been used in a funerary
Slifka Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship combines art historical research with training in the technical investigation of the Museum’s collections.
These spaces, prominently featuring monumental sculptures from western Europe, 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
In March 2017 The Met partnered with Cultural Heritage Imaging to host a two-day symposium focused on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and related techniques in computational photography, including photogrammetry and multiband imaging.
expertise with ICT- or web-related topics; Need for flexible solutions, since we may have
Curator Amelia Peck and Research Associate Moira Gallagher speak to Digital about what a period room is and the benefits of publishing the research that informs them online.
Period rooms have a long history in The Met’s American Wing.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
But her presence in the artist’s studio must have had a profound impact all the
Her left hand, open with the palm up, may have held an object.
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 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