Visiting Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion? You must join the virtual exhibition queue when you arrive. If capacity has been reached for the day, the queue will close early.

Learn more
ticketsMember | Make a donation
Search
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996-1997": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 55. no. 2 (Fall, 1997)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 55 | NUMBER 2

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996–1997"

Avery, Kevin J., Katharine B. Baetjer, Barbara Drake Boehm, Stefano Carboni, Keith Christiansen, Malcolm Daniel, James David Draper, Doug Eklund, Barbara Brennan Ford, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, George R. Goldner, Jared D. Goss, Maria Morris Hambourg, Prudence O. Harper, Maxwell K. Hearn, Johanna Hect, Ariel Herrmann, Timothy B. Husband, Colta Ives, J. Stewart Johnson, Julie Jones, Peter M. Kenny, Heidi King, Wolfram Koeppe, Steven M. Kossak, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. LaRocca, Clare Le Corbeiller, Martin Lerner, Laurence Libin, William S. Lieberman, Charles T. Little, Carolyn Logan, Jennifer A. Loveman, Jessie McNab, Joan R. Mertens, Lisa M. Messinger, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Laura Muir, Miyeko Murase, Carlos A. Picón, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Sabine Rewald, William Rieder, Catharine Roehrig, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Nan Rosenthal, Lowery S. Sims, Perrin Stein, Susan Alyson Stein, Dietrich von Bothmer, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Daniel Walker, James C. Y. Watt, H. Barbara Weinberg, William D. Wixom, and Jayne Wrightsman
1997
95 pages
This title is out of print.
Download PDF (37.42 MB)
View More Publication Info

Director's Note

Contributors

Ancient World

Islam

Medieval Europe

Renaissance and Baroque Europe

Europe 1700–1900

North America 1700–1900

Twentieth Century

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Asia

Met Art in Publication

Human-headed bison, Serpentine (lizardite), Neo-Sumerian
Human-headed bison
ca. 2080 BCE
Male god, Granodiorite
Male god
ca. 1390–1352 B.C.
Faience double-spouted vessel in the form of a kneeling woman holding a jar, Faience, East Greek
Faience double-spouted vessel in the form of a kneeling woman holding a jar
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
Marble head of a man from a grave stele, Marble, Greek, Attic
Marble head of a man from a grave stele
ca. 325 BCE
Marble head of Athena, Marble, Greek
Marble head of Athena
ca. 200 BCE
Marble portrait head of Antinoos, Marble, Roman
Marble portrait head of Antinoos
ca. 130–138 CE
Bronze rod tripod stand, Bronze, Greek
Bronze rod tripod stand
early 6th century BCE
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl), Polyteleia Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Corinthian
Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)
Polyteleia Painter
ca. 630–615 BCE
Terracotta antefix (roof tile), Terracotta, Etruscan
Terracotta antefix (roof tile)
late 6th century BCE
Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull, Bronze, Roman
Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
mid-2nd–early 3rd century CE
Saint Julian, Taddeo Gaddi Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
Saint Julian
Taddeo Gaddi
1340s
The Crucifixion, Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono) Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
The Crucifixion
Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono)
probably mid-1450s
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, Muhammad al-Zanjani Iranian, Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Muhammad al-Zanjani
dated 531 AH/1137 CE
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, Muhammad al-Zanjani Iranian, Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Muhammad al-Zanjani
dated 531 AH/1137 CE
Textile Fragment, Silk, silvered (?) animal substrate wound around a cotton core; lampas
Textile Fragment
second half 13th–14th century
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre, Walrus ivory, German
Game Piece with a Scene from the Life of Apollonius of Tyre
ca. 1170
The Road to Calvary, Master of the Lorsch Calvary, Alabaster, German
The Road to Calvary
Master of the Lorsch Calvary
ca. 1440
Adoration of the Magi, Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft), Pot metal and colorless glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain, German
Adoration of the Magi
Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft)
1507
Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso), Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia) Italian, Pen and brown ink, over traces of charcoal or black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush with touches of brown wash, over traces of charcoal or black chalk (verso)
Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)
Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)
1435–38
Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo), Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) Italian, Oil on canvas
Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)
Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
ca. 1540–49
Showing 20 of 97

You May Also Like

A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1997-1998": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 56, no. 2 (Fall, 1998)

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1997–1998"

1998
Free to download
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004-2005": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 2 (Fall, 2005)

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004–2005"

2005
Free to download
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2007-2008": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no. 2 (Fall, 2008)

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2007–2008"

2008
Free to download
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1993-1994": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 52, no. 2 (Fall, 1994)

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1993–1994"

1994
Free to download
"Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1991-1992": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 50, no. 2 (Fall, 1992)

"Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1991–1992"

1992
Free to download

Related Content

Essays and timelines