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A man and women stand in front of a large painting. The painting is well lit and the people are in shadow.
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Exhibition Tour—Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 | Met Exhibitions
Join Stephan Wolohojian, John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge of the Department of European Paintings, and Caroline Campbell, Director (An Stiúrthóir) of the National Gallery of Ireland, to virtually explore Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350.
October 24, 2024
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Look Again:European Paintings—Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece
Join curator Adam Eaker and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653, now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 31, 2024
Detail of lacquered tray with scenes from Virgil’s Aeneid. The section depicts figures fighting on horseback, ships at sea, and ornate floral motifs.
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Immaterial: Chia
Beyond superfoods and infomercials.
July 30, 2024
Writer Fran Lebowitz speaking and gesturing with her hands in The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab in front of Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer painting.
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Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s a Museum
Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer.
Fran Lebowitz
November 9, 2023
Two circus monkeys appear on stage balancing atop balls, each adorned with a mauve-colored star.
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How Can Art Trick Our Minds?
Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!
October 20, 2023
A cracked egg floats over a table top surface featuring a bowl and whole eggs as well as a bucket of paint brushes and bottles of blue, yellow, and red pigments.
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So That’s How You Make Paint?
What does a cake have in common with an Italian Renaissance painting? The answer may surprise you! Watch to learn about the special properties of egg yolk that make it just as perfect for painting as it is for baking.
October 20, 2023
Vincent Van Gogh’s Cypresses hangs on a wall in a wooden frame. The painting depicts tall trees on the left side with a swirling sky behind.
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Van Gogh’s Materials and Process
Gain a deeper understanding of Van Gogh’s artistic process through new discoveries from recent technical studies of Wheat Field with Cypresses and Cypresses in The Met collection.
Silvia A. Centeno and Charlotte Hale
August 21, 2023
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Refashioning the Lavoisiers
A team of experts from across The Met gains new understanding of Jacques Louis David’s iconic portrait.
Silvia A. Centeno, Dorothy Mahon, and David Pullins
September 1, 2021
A wide shot of a paintings conservator working on three panels from an Italian altarpiece depicting three religious figures on a gold background.
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Conserving the Giovanni di Paolo Altarpiece
Follow the two-year-long conservation treatment of the Madonna and Child with Saints altarpiece (1454) by Giovanni di Paolo.
Michael Gallagher, Cynthia Moyer, and Evan Read
April 8, 2021
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Take a Look Behind the Curtain of Johannes Vermeer's Enigmatic Masterpiece
Scientists and a conservator at The Met, an art historian at The Frick Collection, and scientists at the Doerner Institut in Munich team up to investigate changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages.
Dorothy Mahon, Silvia A. Centeno, Federico Carò, Margaret Iacono, Heike Stege, and Andrea Obermeier
June 18, 2020