This exhibition, on view April 29 through September 6, 2004, explores French dress and its aesthetic interplay with art, furniture, and the broader decorative arts between 1750 and 1789, revealing their role as instruments of seduction and erotic play.
intent, are presented as the favored modes of beguilement of the eighteenth-century man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
contemporary knowledge, regardless of whether those objects were created by the genius of man
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
corroborated by four vignettes of the story of the Virgin’s appearance to an Indigenous man
Thematically, the man roasting a duck at the far right of the register above should
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
2700–2500 BCE Marble seated harp player Cycladic 2800–2700 BCE Bronze man
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. 3 Aaron Douglas May 1927 Window Shopper Aaron Douglas ca. 1930 The Junk Man
The study of material derived from ash used in the ground preparations of paintings by both Spanish and Latin American artists in the Baroque period sheds new light on the spread of artistic practices beyond Spain.
with skeletal structure, found in the ground layer of Velazquez’s Portrait of a Man
1962, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1962, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Each man holds a ram-headed scepter in his right hand while the figure at left holds
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Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex
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
