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Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Wilderness Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) ca. 1515–20 Portrait of a Man
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
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
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
The physical embodiment of desire, these objects often display literary or symbolic representations of the pursuit or attainment of the lover.
foreground of a landscape in which a woman points an accusatory finger—and a dagger—at a man
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huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man
Larder William Kentridge (South African, born Johannesburg, 1955) 2007 Walking Man
The Greeks believed that at the moment of death the psyche, or spirit of the dead, left the body as a little breath or puff of wind. The deceased was then prepared for burial according to time-honored rituals.
late 4th–early 3rd century BCE Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man
