Highlights Tour: New and Familiar Masterpieces

Arms and Armor Gallery

The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Arms and Armor Court offers the most extensive selection in the United States of rare and finely made sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European armor for men and horses, created for kings and noblemen to use on the battlefield and in tournaments.

The gallery features a group of elaborately decorated Greenwich armors, from the English Royal workshops founded by King Henry VIII, and one of Henry's personal armors, made in Italy and worn by the king in his last campaign against the French at Calais in 1544.

The Temple of Dendur

Date: ca. 15 B.C.
Accession Number: 68.154

Bernard van Orley, Last Supper

Designed by Bernard van Orley (Netherlandish, Brussels ca. 1492–1541/42 Brussels)

Date: ca. 1524-6 (design), ca. 1525-28 (woven)
Accession Number: 1975.1.1915

Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft)

Date: ca. 1662
Accession Number: 89.15.21

Female Dancer, Han Dynasty

Date: 2nd century B.C.
Accession Number: 1992.165.19

Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)

Date: 1889
Accession Number: 1993.132

El Anatsui, Dusasa II

El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born Anyako, 1944)

Date: 2007
Accession Number: 2008.121