Director Thomas P. Campbell reflects on the acquisition of Charles Le Brun’s magnificent portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
ways, the Met now completes this painting’s story: a picture commissioned by one man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the Cross El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) ca. 1577–87 Portrait of an Old Man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Umbrella at the Seashore Henri Matisse 1905 Nude Henri Matisse ca. 1908 Seated Man
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Colombian 19th century Pair of Ear Pendants Calima-Yotoco 100 BCE–800 CE Bird-Man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Northern Highlands artist late 14th–early 15th century Batrashil dated 1534–35 The Man
A look at the art created across the world in the years around Year One of the Western calendar reveals an incredible richness and variety of cultures.
Nicoya or Central region artitst(s) 100–800 CE Marble statue of a draped seated man
The natural world has long been conceived in Chinese thought as a self-generating, complex arrangement of elements that are continuously changing and interacting.
Xia Chang ca. 1460 Brush holder with “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man
Works with powerful physiques and thin clothing derive from Indian prototypes, while sculptures that feature thin bodies with thick clothing evince a Chinese idiom.
Buddhism began with the life of one man, Siddhartha Gautama, who died around 400
Most of what is known about Phrygian archaeology and its language derives from excavations at the capital city Gordion, located about sixty miles southwest of the modern Turkish capital of Ankara.
The most famous of the Phrygian kings is a man called Midas by the Greeks and Mita
In addition to philosophy, students engaged in rhetoric (the art of public speaking), mathematics, physics, botany, zoology, religion, music, politics, economics, and psychology.
on a lamp stand Roman late 1st century BCE Marble statue of a draped seated man
