The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
discusses the history of quilting in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and how these works of art have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Christian Art The physical remains of saints, called relics, were believed to have
Carnarvon Collection until 1926. Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, 1926. Lord Carnarvon had purchased the ram (26.7.1019) at the Dattari Collection sale, Paris, June 1912, and purchased the masks (26
Roman Period A.D. 2nd century Not on view These three pieces are said to have
color suggest that it was intended to mimic a leather wrapper or parcel that would have
There, evidence of gold sheeting believed to have adorned a long-disintegrated wooden
kuduo reveal the broad range of aesthetic traditions from which the Akan peoples have
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Although a great majority of the objects have been on view and have figured in various
This example appears to have been made by cutting the image of the moon out of an
Scientific tests have corroborated these findings.
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
