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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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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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For writer Amor Towles, The Met is not just one museum, but many.
October 7, 2024
Detail of a clock face with gold-colored accents, roman numeral numbers, and a counter for the date.
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Keeping digital art alive.
September 10, 2024
Detail of Adam's face.
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Making and breaking legacies.
June 4, 2024
An image of a collection of European Decorative Art Objects.
Curator Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide on the reconsideration of European decorative arts.
Delia Cruz Kelly
July 5, 2023
A pair of black men with feathers decorating their heads and body next to a cup covered with a lid
New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.
Marlise Brown
April 12, 2023
Images of trumpeters.
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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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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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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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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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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