The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Inside the British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC. Of course, I can’t find my notes on from what castle or place this stair case was taken, but it is spectacular. The workmanship is quite outstanding.
As called by the designer, Christopher John Rogers (American b 1993). Made of polychrome plaid silk taffeta. You can't miss this one. It's so eye-catching and just off the elevator at the exhibit. Met Museum Costume Institute.
The red brick and limestone arched windows are part of the original metropolitan museum building. This is the view from inside the Lehman galleries looking toward the old building. The arched windows are beautifully framed in this architectural design.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547951
I saw this mummy-portrait in the massive Abrams History of Art book, which says (p. 191):
"The amazing freshness of its colors is due to the fact that it was done in a very durable medium called encaustic, which uses pigments suspended in hot wax. . . At their best, these portraits have an immediacy and a sureness of touch that have rarely been surpassed . . . Our dark-haired boy is as solid and lifelike as anyone might wish. ... The [artist's] intent was only to recall the personality of a beloved child."
Medium: Encaustic on wood, paint
Dimensions: h. 38 cm (14 15/16 in); w. 19 cm (7 1/2 in)
As is my usual practice, I cropped the museum's photo and adjusted levels a bit. Many thanks to the Met for making their collection available as Public Domain!
Oversized musical instruments on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum Sculpture Garden. The collection of pieces is called "Ensemble" by artist Jennie C. Jones. Only one of the three make sound when the wind blows just right. After this summer the roof garden will be closed for the next 5 years while the Met builds a new extension off the back of the building.
Created by Ann Lowe, a very successful black fashion designer.
B 1891--D 1981. Designed Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding gown to John Kennedy 1953. At the Met Museum Costume Institute
8th to 12th century AD, lost-wax gold casting with greenstone eyes. Probably a product of the Gran Coclé culture.
Dimensions: H. 1 1/2 × W. 2 × D. 1 5/16 in. (3.8 × 5.1 × 3.3 cm)
On display at Metropolitan Museum, New York, Gallery 357
Original photo by Sailko: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panama,_macaracas_(attr.),_pendente_a_forma_di_figura_con_testa_felina,_VIII-XIII_sec,_oro_fuso_e_pietra_verde.JPG
Cropped and levels adjusted by me.
Here's a frontal view (B&W) at the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/309531
The gold wires do look like castings (vs. welded on) in the blowup there.
Marble statue of a youthful Hercules
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Roman, Flavian period, A.D. 68-98
Restoration made during the early 17th century: head and neck, right arm below the shoulder, left arm and shoulder, right leg below the knee, left leg, tree trunk, club, plinth
This statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century. It must have been made as one of a pair with the over-life-sized statue of a bearded Hercules displayed across the courtyard. Both may have been excavated in the remains of public baths originally constructed under the emperor Nero in A.D. 62, which were located in the vicinity of the Pantheon.
Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903 (03.12.13)
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The April 20, 2007 unveiling of the 30,000 square foot Greek and Roman Galleries concluded a 15-year project and returned thousands of works from the Museums permanent collection to public view. Over 5,300 objects, created between about 900 B.C. and the early fourth century A.D., are displayed, tracing the parallel stories of the evolution of Greek art in the Hellenistic period and the arts of southern Italy and Etruria and culminating in the rich and varied world of the Roman Empire from from the Late Republican period and the Golden Age of Augustuss Principate to the conversion of Constantine the Great in A.D. 312. The centerpiece of the new installation is the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, a monumental, peristyle cour court with a soaring two-story atrium that links the various galleries and themes.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.
In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.
National Historic Register #86003556
Jean Francois Millet -
The diggers (etching, not dated) -
Metmuseum AN 57.531.18
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/371526
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Renowned for his Realist subject matter, Jean-Francois Millet was moved by social injustice to paint peasants and agricultural laborers, capturing both the poverty and dignity of rural French life. “The human side of art is what touches me most,” he once said. Though the artist was considered a socialist revolutionary by much of the establishment, Millet’s painting The Winnower (1848), praised by one critic as possessing “everything it takes to horrify the bourgeois,” sold at the Paris Salon in 1848. In 1849, Millet moved to Barbizon, where he painted many of his most famous works, and, with Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and others, founded the Barbizon School of landscape painters. In one of his most famous works, The Gleaners (1857), women and children bathed in Millet’s characteristic soft, golden light (meant to convey the sanctity of their relationship to the land) collect grain from the fields after harvest.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's APOLLO CIRCLE Benefit
Sponsored by CAROLINA HERRERA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thursday, 3 Nov 2011
Photo credit: BFAnyc.com
I spotted Zoey at the MET Museum yesterday, staring at "Mäda Primavesi" by Klimt. The girl in that painting seemed to be staring right back at her. Zoey was startled when I asked if I could take her photo for this project. I liked the way her straps formed parallel lines to her mask (required at the MET) and thought they would make an interesting composition. Her pink hair and green strap also added sparkle and interest.
She told me she didn't know much about Klimt but liked this painting because the girl reminded her of her sister. As she spoke, her eyes became very animated and I tried to capture her expression in the 5 photos I took--that's all we had time for.
When I passed Zoey in another section of the museum later, she right walked past me as if she had never seen me before. I, of course, noticed her immediately.
To find out more about the project and see photos taken by other photographers, visit www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/