Immaterial: Blankets and Quilts – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/immaterial-blankets
Threads of identity.
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Threads of identity.
said, Marie, I’m calling because I have a security report to share with you.
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
similarities between the Triton and Nereid group and Riccio’s other bronze figures have
This study for the unrealized bronze equestrian monument to the Milanese duke Francesco Sforza — one of the most ambitious sculptural monuments of the Renaissance – was made by the Florentine master Antonio Pollaiuolo, probably before the celebrated commission was awarded to Leonardo da Vinci in the mid-1480s
The sixteenth-century historian Giorgio Vasari, who owned the sheet and may have
The Museum of Primitive Art’s focus on works linked to a single cultural or ethnic group was unprecedented, and it created a standard for exhibitions of African art that endured throughout the twentieth century.
and collector alike, and the very rare, majestic . . . figures known as ‘queens’ have
This Costume Institute exhibition presents an extensive exploration of man’s ongoing obsession with animalism as expressed through clothing.
the exhibition examines how the physical and sexual characteristics of animals have
Scientific tests have corroborated these findings.
), coatimundi (Nasua narica), or even domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) may have
In February 2020, researchers, scientists, and contemporary artists convened to consider how AI impacts art and creativity.
Our aim was to have experts across disciplines intermingling and discussing how new
Though bannerstones have been found in twenty-four different shapes, each one is