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 collections and the scope of these essays make the Journal essential reading for all scholars and amateurs of the fine arts.
This volume opens with an homage to the late Edith Appleton Standen, a tapestry specialist who was a longtime contributor to the Journal and whose article on tapestries designed by Philippe Behagle for Louis XIV, completed shortly before her death, is included here. This issue also features a number of articles on ancient works: an essay on aspects of early Cycladic sculpture; the reconstruction of an Egyptian relief of the Amarna Period; a catalogue of Egyptian duck flasks of blue anhydrite; a note identifying a lost stone from the Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing; and a technical study of silver-and-gold objects from Moche, Peru. European studies include an investigation of Italian Renaissance birth trays, two essays about a sixteenth-century French stained-glass window, a study of the porcelain decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, two articles on Italian painter Giambattista Tiepolo, and a history of the Bowes family of England and their household furnishings. Nineteenth-century America is featured in two studies that analyze the content and the structure of a unique American autograph quilt and a new interpretation of a painting by Enoch Wood Perry. The volume closes with a lively essay on a series of paintings by Balthus depicting his young model Thérèse.
314 pages, 390 black-and-white illustrations, 9 in. x 11 3/8 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 33, 1998
Table of Contents
The Publications of Edith Appleton Standen, 1986–1998
Some Long Thoughts on Early Cycladic Sculpture, by Joan R. Mertens
Egyptian Duck Flasks of Blue Anhydrite, by Biri Fay
Technical Report: Organic Residues from Egyptian Blue Anhydrite Duck Flasks and Other Anhydrite Vessels, by Richard Newman
Reliefs from the Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty: Reconstruction, Iconography, and Style, by Elena Pischikova
Dendur: The Six-Hundred-Forty-Third Stone, by Gabriele and Jochen Hallof
Silver-and-Gold Moche Artifacts from Loma Negra, Peru, by Deborah Schorsch
The Medici-Tornabuoni Desco da Parto in Context, by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
A Stained-Glass Window from Flavigny-sur-Moselle, by Ariane Isler-De Jongh
Valentin Bousch's Artistic Practice in the Stained Glass of Flavigny-sur-Moselle, by James Bugslag
The Tapestry Weaver and the King: Philippe Behagle and Louise XIV, by Edith A. Standen
A Note on Abraham Banishing Hagar by Giambattista Tiepolo, by Elfriede R. Knauer
Tiepolo, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
The Bowes Family of Streatlam Castle and Gibside and Its Collections, by Margaret Wills and Howard Coutts
The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
"A Marvel of Woman's Ingenious and Intellectual Industry": The Adeline Harris Sears Autograph Quilt, by Amelia Peck
Technical Report on the Sears Autograph Quilt, by Elena Phipps
Talking It Over: A Patriotic Genre Painting by Enoch Wood Perry, by Dorothy Hesselman
Balthus's Thérèses, by Sabine Rewald
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 33, 1998
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