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1st century BCE Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man
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Adriaen Lommelin 17th century Cupid and Psyche Jan van der Bruggen 1665–90 Man
Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo’s practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist’s homoeroticism since his death in 1564.
If you disrobed in front of man who wasn’t your husband, you were no better than
Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, Information Desk: An Epic in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing herself as a young writer.
27 BCE–68 CE Self-Portrait Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) 1660 Portrait of a Man
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Wilderness Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) ca. 1515–20 Portrait of a Man
In The Contraband (84.12a) a self-emancipated man appears in a US Army office, eager
In The Contraband (84.12a) a self-emancipated man appears in a US Army office, eager
In The Contraband (84.12a) a self-emancipated man appears in a US Army office, eager
Inscription: Signed in pencil on the verso: „James Van Der Zee [sideways]“; artist’s printed address label, verso C: „Jas Vanderzee // 176 W. 94 Street // New York, N.Y. 10025“; stamped in ink, verso TC: „Negro Art Adv
commercial sign (referred to by Herman Melville in his 1857 novel "The Confidence Man
This spring Pierre Huyghe (born 1962, Paris) has installed the third in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. His project explores the transformation of cultural and biological systems through a dynamic gathering of components derived from the Museum’s collection, architecture, and surroundings.
which portrays a mysterious creature’s resilience in the aftermath of natural and man-made
