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.
The article that opens Volume 39 discusses two almost identical amethyst royal-name scarabs discovered in 1994 at Dahshur in a cache of jewelry hidden in the burial place of Queen Weret II. She may have been the main consort of King Senwosret III, fifth king of Dynasty 12 (ca. 18781840 B.C.) and one of the most distinguished rulers of the Middle Kingdom. Following are examinations of scenes of the care, feeding, and training of horses on several Attic and non-Attic vases; a complex, imposing incense burner, a unique example of Indian art made at the very beginnings of Buddhist art in Gandhara; the work of Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence between 1613 and 1620; the landscape drawings of Pietro da Cortona; and two drawings from the Museum's collection as evidence of the relationship between mid-eighteenth-century contemporaries Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher. The volume closes with a study of the events that led to the purchase of the 174 European old master paintings that were presented to the public when the new Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its doors in 1872.
248 pages, 396 illustrations (8 in full color), 9 in. x 11 3/8 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 39, 2004
Table of Contents
Two Royal-Name Scarabs of King Amenemhat II from Dahshur, by Daphna Ben-Tor
Horse Care as Depicted on Greek Vases before 400 B.C., by Mary B. Moore
A Buddhist Incense Burner from Gandhara, by Elizabeth Rosen Stone
Becoming Artemisia: Afterthoughts on the Gentileschi Exhibition, by Keith Christiansen
Landscape Drawings by Pietro da Cortona, by Jörg Martin Merz
Natoire and Boucher: Two Studies for a Don Quixote Tapestry, by Françoise Joulie
Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871, by Katharine Baetjer
Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 39, 2004
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