Plan Ahead

Visiting Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty or Van Gogh’s Cypresses?

Read the additional visitor guidelines

MetPublications

Find a Publication

Cultural significance (14)

Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 67, no. 3 (Winter, 2010)]

Phipps, Elena

(2010)

"A Figure for Cibola: Art, Politics, and Aesthetics, among the Luluwa People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 36 (2001)

Petridis, Constantine

(2001)

"France in the Golden Age: A Postscript": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 17 (1982)

Rosenberg, Pierre

(1982)

"Gold of the Americas": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 59, no. 4 (Spring, 2002)

Jones, Julie, and Heidi King

(2002)

"The Heraldic Lion in Akan Art: A Study of Motif Assimilation in Southern Ghana": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 16 (1981)

Ross, Doran H.

(1981)

"Image as Word: A Study of Rebus Play in Song Painting (960–1279)": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 34 (1999)

Bai, Qianshen

(1999)

"A Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth to Tenth Century: Introduction": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 36 (2001)

Harper, Prudence O.

(2001)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 24, no. 1 (Summer, 1965)

Gardner, Albert TenEyck, A. Hyatt Mayor, and James J. Rorimer

(1965)

"Mother Cassowary's Bones: Daggers of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 24 (1989)

Newton, Douglas

(1989)

"Nō Motifs in the Decoration of a Mid-Edo Period Kosode": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 25 (1990)

Richard, Naomi Noble

(1990)

"Portrait Busts of Children in Quattrocento Florence": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 30 (1995)

Coonin, Arnold Victor

(1995)

"Sasanian Seals in the Moore Collection: Motive and Meaning in Some Popular Subjects": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 14 (1979)

Brunner, Christopher J.

(1979)