Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon announces the launch of The Met Collection API, the next step in making the Museum’s collection one of the most accessible on the internet.
Together we have connected the Google Arts & Culture (GA&C) app and website to all
Said to be from near Thessaloniki (Richter 1937, p. 292). [With Michael Ritsos, Thessaloniki, Greece]; before 1913, acquired by Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, purchased from M. Ritsos; collection of F
view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158 The pieces in this group are said to have
Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.
How thrilling it must have been for young readers to navigate its colorful pages,
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
Rider on a NagA number of drawings from the Deccani kingdoms that incorporate marbling are known. A whole group of them illustrate nags; among the Sufis, nags are thought metaphorically to embody the body’s gross desires and therefore are properly shown starved and beaten
. 1625 Not on view Mystical interpretations about the yearnings of the soul have
Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel discusses the reliefs on the inner and outer walls of the Temple of Dendur, with special attention to the offering scenes.
offering of food and beverages as well as the burning of incense, which was thought to have
Along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (The Met 14.40.633), the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) is one of two exceptional paintings by Albrecht Dürer in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
™s San Giobbe altarpiece (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice), which Dürer must have
[André Emmerich Gallery, New York, until 1965]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1965–1969; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1969–1978
Such ornaments likely would have been crafted using fibers and feathers, although
Showcasing masterworks of brush-inscribed Japanese texts, some serving as independent works of art and others enhanced by decorated papers or by paintings, this exhibition takes a close look at the original gestural movement marked in each work—the applied pressure, speed, and rhythm that are said to reflect the artist’s state of mind.
Complementing examples of calligraphy are paintings evoking the literary contexts that have
