Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.
As a young man, he learned to imbue his paintings with powerful expression by studying
The versatility of oil paint made it an essential factor in realizing the new artistic vision of early Netherlandish painting, which combined extraordinary realism with brilliant color.
ca. 1429, died after 1486) Rogier van der Weyden ca. 1460 Portrait of an Old Man
Mannheim, 1884–Paris, 1979
of a Woman (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother) Juan Gris Paris, 1912 Head of a Man
Inscription: In stone, within image, lower left corner: „J.M.I. Del.“In stone, beneath image, lower left: „F. E. [sic] PALMER „; lower right, „LITH. OF CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.“; lower center, „Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1868, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N
life, as several Black adults and children dance to banjo music played by a Black man
Interns Yuhan Nie and Emily Sun introduce the sounds, stories, and families of musical instruments at The Met.
(To pronounce it, say “kay-MAN-cheh.“)
We can speculate about some of Wah’s duties thanks to a set of wooden models that were probably made during his lifetime as part of the burial equipment of his employer, Meketre.
A man of Meketre’s importance probably owned a great deal of land, and his private
Working privately, Greuze managed to build an admiring audience for his expressive studies of emotion and of the complexities of modern life.
He was perhaps a difficult man as well as a proud one.
The Monuments Men were ultimately able to track, locate, and return more than five million looted cultural items.
Melissa Bowling and James Moske discuss the wartime and post-war career of monuments man
Antonio Ratti Textile Center Modern and Contemporary Art 3 of 129 Christ as the Man
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Seasons German, Potsdam ca. 1710 Hunting Scenes German, Silesia ca. 1730 Man
