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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Two women one in red, and one in all black walking a dim lit gallery.
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Exhibition Tour—Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
April 10
Woman wearing purple gloves to stack a ancient marble sculptures on top of one another
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Assembling a Delftware flower pyramid
Multiple, separately fired components must be carefully stacked to assemble this monumental seventeenth-century ceramic vase for cut flowers.
March 4
Writer Amor Towles looks upwards to his right at a statue. Two other statues, set on pedestals, are visible in the background
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Meet Me at The Met: Amor Towles
For writer Amor Towles, The Met is not just one museum, but many.
October 7, 2024
Images of trumpeters.
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The Black Presence in Tudor England
Learn more about John Blanke, a trumpeter who performed at the coronation of Henry VIII, and other documented free Black residents of Tudor England.
January 6, 2023
Two curators behold the Mantuan Roundel, installed in the galleries
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The Mantuan Roundel
Learn more about an extremely rare bronze relief attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli. Created around 1500, it is one of the largest and most technically sophisticated examples of a bronze roundel from the early Renaissance.
December 12, 2022
Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux by Nicholas Hilliard
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Secrets of the Tudor Archives
Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.
October 21, 2022
Curators Lizzie Cleland and Adam Eaker in the Tudors exhibition looking at a painted portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
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The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Virtual Opening
Join curators Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker to explore The Tudors, which traces the transformation of the arts in Tudor England through more than 100 objects.
October 19, 2022
Detail of the Astronomicum Caesareum
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Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book
This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions
October 3, 2022
Gallery view of Fictions of Emancipation at The Met
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Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 1
Explore the complexities that arise through acts of witnessing and representing slavery.
April 28, 2022
Sculpture of a man against a green backdrop
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Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 2
Examine how liberty has been represented and misrepresented in Western art through a series of presentations.
April 28, 2022