Skyla Choi, MuSe intern for Media Production & Online Features, shares inspiration from The Met collection for Halloween costumes, masks, and props!

Gardens played many roles in French society—and thus found increasing representations in art—as places for relaxation, for music and dance, for poetry and learning, for horticulture, as symbolic spaces for myth and allegory, and finally as decorative motifs.

A revealing sensuousness in the nude figure, largely absent in French art before this time, evolved at Fontainebleau.

The vihuela and guitar existed simultaneously until the seventeenth century, when the popularity of the guitar superseded the vihuela.

Conservator Andrew Dipper examines a number of the intricate decorative details found on Andrea Amati's "King" cello, now on loan to the Met through September 8.

Assistant Book Conservator Sophia Kramer discusses her grant-funded conservation of 152 publications dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, which focus on the study of drawing and perspective.

The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments.

Critical factors in the establishment and success of any such center were proximity to water (which would provide energy as well as transport routes) and the availability of metal either from nearby natural supplies or through trade.