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5 days ago · Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest and most comprehensive art museum in New York City and one of the foremost in the world. The museum was incorporated in 1870 and opened two years later. It is home to important collections of Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek and Roman, European, pre-Columbian, New Guinean, Islamic, and American art.
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May 26, 2024 · Human-Headed Winged Lion. Better known as Lamassu, these human-headed winged lions (which depict goddessed) were used to protect important doorways in Assyrian palaces. This collection at the Met dates back to the 9th century, are were used to guard the palace of King Ashurnasirpal II ( 883–859 B.C.) of Assyria.
6 days ago · Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800—Venice and Antiquity. May 29 1 MINUTE. Join curators Stephan Wolohojian and Denise Allen for a closer look at Venetian painting and sculpture in the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800. Learn more about the European ...
1 day ago · From June 5, 2024, to December 31, 2026, MUCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations) in Marseille presents the exhibition “The making of the Mediterranean. A look at museums ” Source: MUCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations), Marseille · Image: Eugène Alexis Girardet, “Bridal procession in southern ...
2 days ago · The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art ranging from the ancient Near East and ancient Egypt, through classical antiquity to the contemporary world.
22 hours ago · Restoration of a fresco from an Ancient Roman villa bedroom, circa 50-40 BC, dimensions of the room: 265.4 × 334 × 583.9 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Mona Lisa , by Leonardo da Vinci , c. 1503 – 1506, perhaps continuing until circa 1517, oil on poplar panel, 77 cm × 53 cm, Louvre (Paris)
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May 18, 2024 · Michiel Sweerts (1618-64), Clothing the naked, c.1661, o/c, 81.9 x 114.3 cm., Metropolitan Museum, New York. Although it was painted in Amsterdam, Michiel Sweerts’s affecting Clothing the naked is in the same type of frame, without the ribbon-&-stave moulding. It was put on the painting after its acquisition in 1981.
