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The Horticultural Roots of Joseph Breck

October 9, 2014

By Christina Alphonso

Christina Alphonso, administrator at The Cloisters, discusses the acute horticultural knowledge of Joseph Breck and his family, and its influence on Breck's designs for The Cloisters museum and gardens.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)

October 1, 2004

By The American Wing

His abiding feeling for the land and his belief in man’s need for a direct relationship with nature were essential to his concept of an “organic architecture.”
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The Death of Joseph Breck and the Formation of The Cloisters Library

September 11, 2014

By Michael Carter

Michael Carter, librarian at The Cloisters, discusses the role played by its first director, Joseph Breck, in the formation of its library.
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Joseph W. Drexel and the Beginnings of the Met's Musical Instrument Collection

January 30, 2014

By Rebecca Lindsey

In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, volunteer Rebecca Lindsey discusses Joseph Drexel's invaluable role in assembling the Museum's early collection of instruments from across the globe.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this pavilion as a living room and small concert space

January 31, 2013

By Amelia Peck

"This was my first step into modernism, which after this I began to appreciate more and more."
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Met's Social Media Nominated for a Webby Award

April 10, 2014

By Taylor Newby

Online Community Manager Taylor Newby celebrates the Met's Webby nomination.
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"Joseph Wright's Pastel Portrait of a Woman, Part I: A Survey of the Drawings of Joseph Wright": The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 44 (2009)

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Patronage of Jean de Berry (1340–1416)

May 1, 2009

By Wendy Alpern Stein

Jean de Berry is the great exemplar of late medieval patronage, and one of the greatest patrons of art of all time.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

October 1, 2004

By Elizabeth E. Barker

Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.
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Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1779
Accession Number: 2013.155

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George Washington

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons (British, Etruria, Staffordshire, 1759–present)

Date: 1770–1800
Accession Number: 83.2.114

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Portrait of a Woman

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: ca. 1770
Accession Number: 1986.264.6

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Trees, bushes and vegetation (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 40 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(40)

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Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 12 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(12)

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Tree branches (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 30 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(30)

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Portrait of a woman, her head turned to the right, wearing an earring

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1770–72
Accession Number: 2007.40

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Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 10 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(10)

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Carved panel and ornament (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 9 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(9)

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Sketches of male bodies, after Michelangeolo (?) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 18 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby)

Date: 1774–75
Accession Number: 57.102.1(18)