Curator Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide on the reconsideration of European decorative arts.
Sometimes we are asked: “Do you have an object similar to what is depicted in this
In addition, four-cornered hats knotted with pile have largely been discovered at
jaguar’s mouth is open, displaying its impressive canines—features that must have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Brooklyn into the New York art world in the early 20th century—but his efforts have
Learn more about the themes explored in The Met Fifth Avenue galleries of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
The Met Cloisters in northern Manhattan, where elements from French monasteries have
Director Thomas P. Campbell reflects on the acquisition of Charles Le Brun’s magnificent portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
Trustee Emerita Jayne Wrightsman, whose contributions over the past forty years have
Associate Administrator R. Theo Margelony shares research on the history of the rose as a floral charge.
true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have
Numerous contemporary authors wrote about the efficacy of such images in stimulating married couples hoping for children, as well as about the belief that visual beauty before a couple’s eyes could influence the appearance of their offspring.
It is clear that their content was understood to have an erotic charge.
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 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
