Florentine woodcuts were generally shaded with parallel lines that give a sense of depth and sculptural form.
fifteenth century and was responsible for the “bonfire of the vanities” that may have
Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High discusses the breadth of the Museum’s collection of musical instruments with J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments.
Kenneth Moore: There are several art museums that have musical instrument collections
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Palladino 1994 The sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of Early Renaissance Florence have
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, compares the Met’s Jabach portrait with a version that was destroyed in World War II.
Obviously, the one for Jabach must have come first and was the superior version,
Objects like this, with a small well, flanged handles and a long horizontal spout, have
create three-dimensional representations of birds and other animals, depictions that have
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Assyrian Sculpture Court (Gallery 401) showcases sculptures from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in a space designed to evoke their original palace setting.
Ashurnasirpal seems to have been the first Assyrian king to line his palace walls
Antonello da Messina is, in a sense, the first truly European painter and his remarkably varied achievements raise issues crucial to our understanding of European art.
Antonello is documented in the city in 1475–76, but his visits may have been more
[René Rasmussen, Gallery AAA, Paris (purchased in Bamako region, Mali) 1953–1961]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, 1961–1964; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1964–1978
When humans gradually became careless and wasteful, however, Ci Wara is said to have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
tapestries—like the Lady with the Unicorn series in the Musée de Cluny in Paris—have
