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Investigation of Heavy-Metal Soap Deterioration in Oil Paintings

August 2, 2022

This project seeks to determine the causes and mechanisms of a degradation process in traditional oil paintings known as soap formation.

editorial

Play Bubble Guppies: Dive into The Met

April 4, 2022

By The Digital Editors

Learn more about the new game from Noggin and The Met

Essay

Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797

March 1, 2007

By Elizabeth Marwell, Trinita Kennedy, and Stefano Carboni

The same merchant galleys that carried spices, soap, cotton, and industrial supplies from the bazaars of the Islamic Near East to the markets of Venice also brought with them luxurious carpets, velvets, silks, glass, porcelain, gilded bookbindings, illustrated manuscripts, and inlaid metalwork.

Essay

Genre Painting in Northern Europe

April 1, 2008

By Jennifer Meagher

A large facet of a genre scene’s appeal was the opportunity it afforded to gaze into a private interior and to identify with the values expressed by the subject.

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Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C.

October 1, 2002

By Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The sculpture and the royal archive were preserved by chance when Ebla was attacked and the palace contents were buried under the building’s rubble.

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MetKids at World Maker Faire 2015

October 7, 2015

By Emily Sutter

Emily Sutter, coordinator for Digital Learning, recaps the #MetKids team's trip to World Maker Faire 2015.

Essay

Ceramic Technology in the Seljuq Period: Stonepaste in Syria and Iran in the Eleventh Century

January 1, 2021

By Martina Rugiadi

Stonepaste—also called fritware or siliceous ware—is made primarily of finely ground quartz obtained from pebbles or sand that is mixed with small amounts of liquefied glass (glass frit or glass fragments) and refined clay for greater malleability and structure.

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David Landau and Marie-Rose Kahane Donate 44 Glass Works by Carlo Scarpa to Metropolitan Museum

Art

Soap Bubbles

Jean Siméon Chardin (French, Paris 1699–1779 Paris)

Date: ca. 1733–34
Accession Number: 49.24

Art

Soap Bubbles

Thomas Couture (French, Senlis 1815–1879 Villiers-le-Bel)

Date: ca. 1859
Accession Number: 87.15.22

Interview with Philippe de Montebello on the Issue of Nazi-Confiscated Art

On July 14, 1998, the National Press Club invited the director of The Met to discuss the issue of works of art confiscated by the Nazis during World War II.

Art

Soap Bubbles

Pierre Filloeul (French, Abbeville 1696–after 1754 Paris)

Date: 1739
Accession Number: 24.63.1302

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CHARDIN

In celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the 18th-century French artist Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major loan exhibition of 66 works that will survey the artist's distinguished career as a still-life and genre painter. On view from June 27 through September 3, 2000, Chardin will be the first exhibition in New York devoted to the artist and the first in the United States in more than 20 years.

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Chardin

A major loan exhibition offering a survey of Chardin's distinguished career as a still life and genre painter in sixty-six works from international collections

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CHARDIN

Chardin — a major loan exhibition of more than 65 works that will survey the great 18th-century artist's distinguished career as a still-life and genre painter — will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 27 through September 3, 2000.

Art

Soap Bubbles

Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, Lyons 1736–1810 Lyons)

Date: 1799
Accession Number: 2001.313

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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS

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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER—DECEMBER 2000

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