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
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
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
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,
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
Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II takes a walk through an exhibition of works on paper by Eugène Delacroix with Assistant Curator Ashley Dunn to discuss Delacroix’s artistic practice, as well as his love of nature and literature.
comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work in North America, but visitors also have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
What does a cake have in common with an Italian Renaissance painting?
La Venta’s rulers oversaw a burgeoning economy that included trade in exotic materials such as greenstones, much of which was buried in the elaborate offerings of Complex A.
northern ceremonial precinct of Complex A was probably limited to the elite, who may have
