In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters
For Salvant, also a skilled textile artist, the tapestries have been a source of
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
Former Slifka Fellow Christine Seidel introduces each member of the Jabach family, the subject of the Museum’s recently acquired portrait by Charles Le Brun.
Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2014 (2014.250) «In the few months that have passed since
The account of the origins of art is a very long one marked less by change than consistency.
The first human artistic representations, markings with ground red ocher, seem to have
The Museum is donating PPE to healthcare workers and sharing our passion for art online.
we experience this most challenging and uncertain time, The Met community and I 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
The Artist: Ambrosius Benson is most noted as a North Italian painter who went to study and work in Bruges. As a result, his works are a unique conflation of Netherlandish and Italian Renaissance styles
painters’ guild.[1] Nothing is known of his life before this date, but he might have
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
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466 – 1536) was the most famous Dutch humanist of his day. A noted theologian and classical scholar, he published new editions in Latin and Greek of the New Testament, and his sermons and satirical writings were widely disseminated
It would have been while the painting was in the collection of John, Lord Lumley,
