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"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1997-1998": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 56, no. 2 (Fall, 1998)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 56 | NUMBER 2

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1997–1998"

Adlin, Jane, Dorothea Arnold, Kevin J. Avery, Carmen C. Bambach, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Barbara Drake Boehm, Stefano Carboni, Keith Christiansen, Malcolm Daniel, Elliot Bostwick Davis, James David Draper, Douglas Eklund, Helen C. Evens, Mia Fineman, Barbara B. Ford, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Jared D. Goss, Maria Morris Hambourg, Maxwell K. Hearn, Johanna Hecht, John K. Howat, 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 , Denise Patry Leidy, Laurence Libin, William S. Lieberman, Walter Liedtke, Charles T. Little, Carolyn Logan, Jennifer A. Loveman, Jessie McNab, Joan R. Mertens, Lisa M. Messinger, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Kenneth J. Moore, Marina Nudel, Nadine M. Orenstein, Carlos A. Picón, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Sabine Rewald, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Lowery Stokes Sims, Frances Gruber Stafford, Perrin Stein, Susan Alyson Stein, Hongkyung Anna Suh, Gary Tinterow, Suzanne G. Valenstein,  Catherine Hoover, Daniel Walker, James C. Y. Watt, and H. Barbara Weinberg
1998
80 pages
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Director's Note

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

Head of a Hippopotamus, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) with traces of gesso and red pigment
Head of a Hippopotamus
ca. 1390–1352 B.C.
Bronze oinochoe, Bronze, Greek
Bronze oinochoe
mid-6th century BCE
Fragmentary terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Lydos, Terracotta, Greek, Attic
Fragmentary terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Lydos
ca. 560 BCE
Marble lid of a cinerary chest, Marble, Roman
Marble lid of a cinerary chest
late 1st century CE
Bronze statuette of Jupiter, Bronze, Roman
Bronze statuette of Jupiter
2nd half of 2nd century CE
Anthology of Persian Poetry in Oblong Format (Safina), Sultan Muhammad Nur Iranian, Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper.<br/>Binding: leather
Anthology of Persian Poetry in Oblong Format (Safina)
Sultan Muhammad Nur
dated 905 AH/1499–1500 CE
Talismanic Shirt, Cotton, ink, gold; plain weave, painted
Talismanic Shirt
15th–early 16th century
Kamānche, Wood, metal, bone, gut, Iranian (Persian)
Kamānche
ca. 1880
Garden Fountain, Brass; cast in sections, joined and engraved
Garden Fountain
early 17th century
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, Marble and glass, Byzantine
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
500–550, with modern restoration
Wing Brooch, Silver, gold, four carnelians, Roman
Wing Brooch
100–200
Tip of a Pointer, Cloisonné enamel, gold, Byzantine
Tip of a Pointer
1080–1150
Head of a Youth, Limestone, French
Head of a Youth
ca. 1150–75
Virgin and Child with Bird, Limestone with polychromy, French
Virgin and Child with Bird
mid-15th century
Bible, Tempera and gold on parchment; leather binding, French
Bible
ca. 1250–75
Saint Jerome (recto); Soldier with a Spear (verso), Vittore Carpaccio Italian, Brush with black ink and gray wash, over traces of black chalk or charcoal, highlighted with white gouache on blue paper (recto); black chalk, highlighted with white gouache, with some brush and gray wash (verso)
Saint Jerome (recto); Soldier with a Spear (verso)
Vittore Carpaccio
1460–1525
Lucretia, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) Italian, Pen and brown ink over black chalk, partially incised with a stylus (recto); rubbed with black chalk for transfer (verso)
Lucretia
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
1508–10
Christ as the Man of Sorrows, Frans Crabbe van Espleghem Netherlandish, Engraving and etching
Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Frans Crabbe van Espleghem
ca. 1522–25
Seated Figure of Mercury, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Italian, Black chalk
Seated Figure of Mercury
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
1524–26
The Crucifixion, Hans Burgkmair German, Woodcut in eight blocks printed on eight sheets
The Crucifixion
Hans Burgkmair
1527
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