A recent conservation treatment of The Adoration of the Magi provided the opportunity to examine the painting and to investigate the stages of its production.
Based on the similarity of the perspective, as well as the figures, scholars have
View research from The Met’s Musical Instruments
through this comprehensive account of the people, performances, and instruments that have
Attribution, Date, and Bruegel’s Working Methods: When The Met acquired The Harvesters in 1919, the extraordinarily low sale price in part had to do with the art market that had virtually collapsed during World War I
Furthermore, to have a full moon so high in the sky, the time would have to be after
Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.
How thrilling it must have been for young readers to navigate its colorful pages,
Rider on a NagA number of drawings from the Deccani kingdoms that incorporate marbling are known. A whole group of them illustrate nags; among the Sufis, nags are thought metaphorically to embody the body’s gross desires and therefore are properly shown starved and beaten
. 1625 Not on view Mystical interpretations about the yearnings of the soul have
How is Black dandyism integral to Black identity and the history of fashion?
Others, like Equiano, might not have been dressed in this way, but through their
While either tradition could have contributed this powerful animal to the repertory
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have
Learn more about the fascinating 16th-century boxwood miniatures featured in the exhibition „Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures.“
Yet over the course of more than 500 years these works of art have repeatedly been
From the archaeological record, it is clear that these animals were rarely hunted; the images are thus not simple depictions of daily life at the time they were made.
Red hand stencils and complete handprints have also been discovered.
