On a tour of the Met, Professor Andrew Lear shares some of art history's best kept "sexy secrets."
Date: late 14th or early 15th century. Culture: South Netherlandish. Medium: Bronze; Quaternary copper alloy (approx. 72% copper, approx. 17% zinc,approx. 6...
Our 5 MUST SEE works of art when planning your visit to the MET-Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, one of the largest art galleries in the world.
A singular and provocative exhibition of Balthus's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reflects not only his trademark preoccupation with young girls, but also a less well documented love of cats
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s entrance pavilion is building designed to be experienced as a sequential unfolding of interrelated masses, spaces and vistas.
Caligula, Roman emperor from 37 to 41 CE, who succeeded Tiberius and transferred the last legion under a senatorial proconsul to an imperial legate, completing the emperor’s monopoly of army command. Accounts of his reign by ancient historians are so biased against him that the truth is nearly impossible to discern.
Early Cycladic sculpture comprises predominantly female figures that range from simple modification of the stone to developed representations of the human form, some with natural proportions and some more idealized.
Lucas Cranach the Elder - The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara 1510
The man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of every-day life around him.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, co-curator of Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, describes Sargent's practice of dressing the subjects of his portraits.
The use of such procedures as double exposure, combination printing, montage, and solarization dramatically evoked the union of dream and reality. Other photographers used techniques such as rotation or distortion to render their images uncanny.
Artist: Martin van Meytens the Younger (Swedish, 1695–1770). Date: probably early 1760s. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 90 1/8 x 75 in. (228.9 x 190.5...
The second-generation Hudson River School painter built a reputation as a master of light and atmosphere.
The man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of every-day life around him.
Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris). Date: ca. 1769–70. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 22 in. (71.8 x 55.9 cm)....
Harpsichord 1610, Flemish The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (French, Paris 1727–1791 Paris). Date: 1770. Medium: Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas. Dimensions: 31 ...
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois). Date: ca. 1862–64. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90....
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz). Date: 1869. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (59.7 x 73 cm). Cl...
Artist: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London). Date: ca. 1620–21. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 47 1/8 x 34 5/8 in. (119.7 x 87.9 cm...
A blog exploring the work of all four Getty programs. Learn what's new and get a glimpse behind the scenes.
The painting is the top lot of the Dorothy and Richard Sherwood Collection, which will be offered at Christie’s this May.
Date: 7th–8th century. Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz. Culture: Remojadas. Medium: Ceramic. Dimensions: H. 18 11/16 x W. 11 3/4 x D. 6 1/4 in. (...
Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London). Date: 1897. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 84 1/4 x 39 3/4 in. (...
Date: late 14th or early 15th century. Culture: South Netherlandish. Medium: Bronze; Quaternary copper alloy (approx. 72% copper, approx. 17% zinc,approx. 6...
