Werl, Germany, 1887—Münster, 1968
, and modern: 1) because old paintings may be bought by the state, 2) because I have
Though bannerstones have been found in twenty-four different shapes, each one is
similarities between the Triton and Nereid group and Riccio’s other bronze figures have
What happens when you listen to things you can normally only see? To find out, Beer turned 32 artworks into a playable instrument.
Oliver Beer: I’m a sculptor and have been trained in music, so I’ve always been very
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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
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.
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
Lapita art is best known for its ceramics, which feature intricate repeating geometric patterns that occasionally include anthropomorphic faces and figures.
Many Lapita ceramics are large vessels thought to have been used for cooking, serving
The Preventive Conservation Science Laboratory is developing a new test to assess materials used in the storage, display, and transport of organic objects.
Most museums, libraries, and archives do not have the resources necessary to perform
