depict pagan gods and were probably intended for private collectors, while six 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
woodcuts after Titian’s design, proposing Giovanni Britto instead, and these arguments have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The methods of excavation in the first third of this century have been surpassed
dressed, polychromed wood sculpture of the Virgin and Child, is traditionally held to have
In addition, four-cornered hats knotted with pile have largely been discovered at
The Lalibela churches take their form, placement, and orientation from both geological features and structures within the complex.
The churches have been carved top-down from the sections of porous basaltic scoriae
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
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
