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editorial

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.

video

Raymond Pettibon on Joseph Mallord William Turner

September 16, 2015

Artist Raymond Pettibon reflects on Joseph Mallord William Turner in this episode of The Artist Project.

editorial

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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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.

Publication

"A Study for Abimelech Discovering Isaac and Rebecca by Étienne Parrocel"

Essay

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.

editorial

Johannes Joseph Endletzberger: the Fabergé of Greeting Cards

February 9, 2022

By Nancy Rosin

The anniversary installation Collectors’ Collections contained a group of Biedermeier-era greeting cards that were donated to the Museum by Mrs. Jean Riddell as part of a larger gift in 1981.

video

Girault de Prangey's Multiple Exposure Daguerreotypes

May 12, 2019

By Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

After three years traveling throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotype—unique photographic images on silvered copper plates.

Press Release