A modernist in the true sense of the word, Chanel ascribed primacy to function and materials. While a straight, linear silhouette characterizes her designs of the 1920s, her dresses of the 1930s appear more feminine and romantic. Also on display Chanel The
exhibition also focuses on the iconography of the Chanel style that, over time, have
The painting would have functioned as an aid to individual prayer and contemplation
Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech discusses the uses of medieval cereal grains and compares them to their descendants.
Each field of medieval grains would have had evolved in the truest Darwinian sense
There, evidence of gold sheeting believed to have adorned a long-disintegrated wood
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Robert Lehman must have considered illuminations above all an extension of his great
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
The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).
elaborately carved furniture represents the height of fashionability and would have
This roundel is a rare and splendid example of early fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish embroidery. The detailed pictorial design and luminous palette, created by colored silk and metallic threads, highlight the sophistication of this medium, which was so highly prized during this period
panels are now dispersed among public and private collections), the embroideries may have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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woodcuts after Titian’s design, proposing Giovanni Britto instead, and these arguments have
