photography, civil war
two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have
In a flush of optimism following the Civil War, a group of businessmen, civic leaders, and artists determined to found an art museum in New York City. They took the first concrete step toward this goal on April Making We Scheduled The In These Above
We have also considered the legacy of each episode, its staying power or evolution
The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
living, in the Dutch way, contribute to the considerable wealth which many of them have
Brought back from Europe to the United States in 1902-1903 by W.C. Fields (1880-1946) or obtained by Fields from D.W. Griffith in the late 1930s; 1946, by descent to Carlotta Monti (1907-1993), California; unknown date, sold on behalf of Carlotta Monti; 1980s-2004, private collection, New England; 2004, purchased by Henrietta and Christopher McCall on eBay; acquired by the Museum in 2023, purchased from Christopher McCall, Henley-on-Thames, UK
The scene also includes figures carrying the bodies of antelope that have been killed
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
It is, generally, a period’s extraordinary works of art and architecture that have
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Dürer carried the technique to a degree of richness and detail that has never been surpassed.
known as a burin is used to gouge clear, sharp furrows in a metal plate, appears to have
In this particular case the wrappings have a checkerboard pattern created with darker
Conservators at The Met describe the difficulties of preserving pastels.
from a butterfly’s wings.” [1] Left: A box of pastels, such as those Degas may have
Watson Library provides Met staff, art professionals, and scholars with a collection of over 1,020,000 volumes; over 21,000 periodical titles; over 140,000 auction and sale catalogs; online journals and databases; and papers and ephemera related to artists and Museum history.
In addition, several curatorial departments have specialized libraries of their own
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The majority of the paintings in this volume have for the first time undergone rigorous
