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Because many of these works have either only recently been excavated or have never
Because many of these works have either only recently been excavated or have never
The largest number of drawings and prints by the beloved sixteenth-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder ever assembled
Bruegel’s drawings ever assembled and reflects recent advances in scholarship that have
Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II takes a walk through an exhibition of works on paper by Eugène Delacroix with Assistant Curator Ashley Dunn to discuss Delacroix’s artistic practice, as well as his love of nature and literature.
comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work in North America, but visitors also 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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
About the authors Praise Since earliest human history, peoples around the globe have
The institution of slavery existed in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans and was widespread at the period of economic contact.
It would be impossible to argue, however, that transatlantic trade did not have a
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.