While earlier artists focused on creating an illusion of architectural depth with solid architectural forms, the artists at Boscotrecase presented the idea with whimsical, attenuated, and highly refined elements.
One of the most sumptuous must have been the villa at Boscotrecase built by Agrippa
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
Both Hindustani and Karnatak music use the system of ragas—sets of pitches and small motives for melody construction—and tala for rhythm.
North India and Karnatak music of South India, although many regions of India also 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 Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
February 1, 2019 Ancient Egyptian Amulets An amulet is an object believed to have
A collaboration reveals new research on an archaic Greek sphinx finial at The Met.
At over thirteen feet high, the stele and sphinx would have been visible from a great
Senior weavers may have produced the brocaded felines, given their increased complexity
Gallery 208 This life-size sculpture is part of a group of sixteen figures that have
Light brown figures with split eyes have a human aspect and the fangs of beings endowed
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
