Tunic with Felines – Chimú – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313153
Senior weavers may have produced the brocaded felines, given their increased complexity
Senior weavers may have produced the brocaded felines, given their increased complexity
objects is found in the plaquettes that decorate the bases: The Met’s burners both 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.
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
Stonepaste production expanded significantly in the twelfth century, as witnessed by a substantial increase in production centers; advances in established techniques and the development of new ones, especially underglaze painting; a greater sophistication in decoration; and a more marked stylistic divergence between Syrian and Iranian productions.
Scholars have endeavored to locate this technological and artistic growth in the
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
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
In 1856, a seventeen-year-old named Adeline Harris (1839-1931) conceived of a unique project: to collect the autographs of the well-known people she most esteemed. This, in itself, was not unusual; the practice of collecting autographs of famous people was very popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
The Knight family’s fortunes seem to have turned around after Sophia married James
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