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The new American Wing [electronic resource] : [press kit] part 2 : the Charles Engelhard Court and the period rooms
No full textDigital press kit for the opening of the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 19, 200
Vermeer's Masterpiece, the Milkmaid
No full textIssued in conjunction with the exhibition, Vermeer's masterpiece, the Milkmaid held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 9-Nov. 29, 2009 ; Includes bibliographical references ; In this catalogue for the exhibition, Walter Liedtke, Curator of Paintings at the Metropolitan, drawing on the Museum’s five Vermeers, scenes by other Dutch masters in the Museum’s collection, including Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Nicolaes Maes, and Emanuel de Witte, and several works on paper, places the picture in the context of the artist’s brief career and relates it to contemporary developments in Dutch art. In addition to an extended discussion of the painting’s provenance, he provides a detailed study of the composition, the several revisions made during the course of execution, and the subtle relationships between light and shadow, color, contour, and shape. And he proposes a most intriguing argument for an erotic subtext, pointing out that, like maids and kitchen maids in earlier Netherlandish art, the figure in The Milkmaid was meant to attract the male viewer, to rouse in him temptation and restraint, desire and reservation, while the kitchen maid herself, endowed with traits typically reserved for higher-class women and surrounded by references to romance both literal and oblique, is presented as having amorous thoughts of her own
Choirs of angels : painting in Italian choir books, 1300-1500 [installation photographs]
No full textExhibition views of Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300-1500, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 11/25/2008 to 4/12/200
Esteemed photographer Helen Levitt honored with endowment fund and promised gift of photographs to Metropolitan Museum
No full textPress release issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Ar
Painting in Metropolitan Museum's collection reattributed to Spanish master Velazquez
No full textPress release issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Ar
North Italian drawings, 1410-1550 [electronic resource] : [press kit] selections from the Robert Lehman collection and the Department of Drawings and Prints
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 200
Sounding the Pacific [electronic resource] : [press kit] musical instruments of Oceania
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 17, 2009-Sept. 6, 201
Velázquez rediscovered [electronic resource] : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 17, 2009-Feb. 7, 201