view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166 This over life-size fragment may have
Commissioned by Ẹsìgie (r. ca. 1517–50), Benin City; by descent to Òvá»�Ì�nránmwẹ̀ (r. 1889–97); removed from the Royal Palace by Sir Ralph Moor, 1897; Sir Ralph Moor and his wife, Adrienne Moor, London, 1897–1909; John Sparks, London, 1909; Prof
Although images of women are rare in Benin’s courtly tradition, these two works have
Assistant Conservator Jennifer Schnitker writes about the restoration of the Thomas Appleton pipe organ.
If you play a guitar or another stringed instrument, you may have tuned its strings
Interns Yuhan Nie and Emily Sun introduce the sounds, stories, and families of musical instruments at The Met.
Membranophones is the family name for instruments that have a stretched surface,
The Mahafaly have adopted the term aloalo to refer strictly to the works that are
Andean people attentively observed the natural world, and the various roles attributed to birds in religions and artistic representations often seem to derive from their properties and behaviors in nature.
On the coast, domesticated muscovy ducks may have been part of the subsistence.
Showcasing masterworks of brush-inscribed Japanese texts, some serving as independent works of art and others enhanced by decorated papers or by paintings, this exhibition takes a close look at the original gestural movement marked in each work—the applied pressure, speed, and rhythm that are said to reflect the artist’s state of mind.
Complementing examples of calligraphy are paintings evoking the literary contexts that have
The study of material derived from ash used in the ground preparations of paintings by both Spanish and Latin American artists in the Baroque period sheds new light on the spread of artistic practices beyond Spain.
variety of inorganic materials, such as calcite and gypsum, bound with natural glues, have
Taken to England by John Barker; exhibited in the recesses of Waterloo Bridge in connection with being offered for sale at Sotheby’s, London, 1833; Collection of John Lee of Hartwell from 1833; Collection of Lord Amherst from about 1864; purchased by the Museum from Lord Amherst’s family, 1915
The Sakhmet statues have convincingly been shown to have constituted a „litany in
Theodore Rousseau Fellowships supports 12-months of travel abroad to conduct research related to paintings collections in Europe.
All fellows are expected to have valid US work authorization for the entire duration
