Two-handled Jar – Roman Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573670
While the vessel’s decoration suggests that it could have been used in a funerary
While the vessel’s decoration suggests that it could have been used in a funerary
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.
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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
dressed, polychromed wood sculpture of the Virgin and Child, is traditionally held 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
The archaeology of rubbish.
I think, you know, we have a culture that’s outta sight outta mind when it comes
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