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
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
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
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
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.
In addition, four-cornered hats knotted with pile have largely been discovered at
Gericault’s lifelong interest in animal themes is best known through his love of horses. He had an intimate knowledge of horses, which he derived not only from drawing and painting them continually but also from developing his skills as an equestrian
known only by means of a replica (Musée du Louvre, Paris), which is thought to have
While the origin of many concepts, practices, and monuments can be traced to earlier periods, it was during the Old Kingdom that they developed into the forms that would characterize and influence the rest of pharaonic history.
(ca. 2490–2472 B.C.), who built the other two pyramids at Giza, there seems to have
