The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its purpose is to publish original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Contributions, by members of the Museum staff and other specialists, vary in length from monographic studies to brief notes. The wealth of the Museum's collection and the scope of these essays make the Journal essential reading for all scholars and amateurs of the fine arts.
Volume 41 opens with a study of an image, interpreted as that of an Assyrian dignitary or king, on a ninth-century B.C. ivory plaque from Hasanlu. Another article scrutinizes the scenes from everyday life that decorate a mid-sixth-century B.C. Attic black-figured hydria. Two studies are devoted to an intriguing tale of mistaken identity: the history of a Byzantine embroidery of a double-headed eagle, once considered part of a military banner but now recognized to have served an ecclesiastical purpose. Another article examines the mysterious provenance of an extraordinary illustrated German manuscript, probably late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century, that seems to be the inventory catalogue of an armory put up for sale in a lottery. European painting is the subject of two articles: one analyzes Carpaccio’s paintings of the Passion witnessed by Job, and the other examines Reynolds’s 1786 portrait of John Barker. Also included is a study examining the English and American oil paintings and watercolors, as well as commemorative objects, given to the Metropolitan Museum by Cyrus W. Field in 1866. Three articles treat works of sculpture: two large allegorical groups of children, from about 1746–48, by Francesco Ladatte; Bertel Thorvaldsen’s dramatic and erotically charged relief Nessus Abducting Deianira, conceived in 1814/15; and Paul Manship’s first major commission, the John Pierpont Morgan Memorial (1915–20) for the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum, honoring the great financier and collector who was a patron of the Museum almost from its founding.
193 pages, 250 illustrations (13 in full color), 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Paper.
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 41, 2006
Table of Contents
An Assyrian-Style Ivory Plaque from Hasanlu, Iran, by Paul Collins
Hoplites, Horses, and a Comic Chorus, by Mary B. Moore
A Double-Headed Eagle Embroidery: From Battlefield to Altar, by Jennifer L. Ball
A Double-Headed Eagle Embroidery: Analysis and Conservation, by Kathrin Colburn
Studi dal vivo e dal non più vivo: Carpaccio’s Passion Paintings with Saint Job, by Brigit Blass-Simmen
An Illustrated Manuscript Inventory of an Armory for Sale by Lottery, by Helmut Nickel
Two Allegorical Sculptures by Francesco Ladatte, by Olga Raggio
Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of John Barker, Chairman of Ramsgate Harbour, by John H. Appleby
Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Nessus Abducting Deianira, by Ian Wardropper
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable: Paintings, Watercolors, and Commemorative Objects Given to the Metropolitan Museum by Cyrus W. Field, by Josephine C. Dobkin
Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, and the John Pierpont Morgan Memorial for the Metropolitan Museum, by Thayer Tolles
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 41, 2006
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