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Publication

"Lucas Cranach's Saint Maurice"

This Bulletin discusses Lucas Cranach's Saint Maurice and the importance of this saint during the stormy period of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Anticipating the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, this Bulletin draws on the work of donor Mrs. Eva S. Kollsman and connects this image of Saint Maurice to sculptural relics belonging to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the most powerful Roman Catholic prelate at the time.

Press Release

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Lucas van Leyden Drawing

Publication

"The Judgment of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder: Nature, Allegory, and Alchemy"

Essay

Egyptian Red Gold

March 1, 2007

By Deborah Schorsch and Tony Frantz

Alfred Lucas, one of the foremost early researchers in the study of ancient Egyptian technology, correctly surmised that the vast majority of such colorations resulted from fortuitous tarnishing of silver-bearing gold and also recognized correctly that a smaller group of objects bearing a distinctly different red coloration represented another phenomenon altogether.

Publication

"The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden"

editorial

Major in Fearlessness

April 25, 2014

By Sumura and Tiffany

Teen Advisory Group Members Sumura and Tiffany share an original short story about the subjects of two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Publication

"A Possible Cypriot Origin for an Assyrian Stone Mixing Bowl in the Cesnola Collection": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 52 (2017)

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 52 include a study of the intertwined relationship between two late masterpieces by Andrea del Sarto, new attributions for seven Roman drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries, and a reevaluation of Horace Pippin's painting, The Lady of the Lake from the late 1930s.

editorial

Van Gogh's Cypresses

August 1, 2014

By Luca

Former High School Intern Luca describes Vincent van Gogh's Cypresses, currently on view in gallery 826.

Past Exhibition

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

2024/4/2–2024/7/7

This exhibition is the first to examine an intriguing but largely unknown side—in the literal sense—of Renaissance painting: multisided portraits in which the sitter’s likeness was concealed by a hinged or sliding cover, within a box, or by a dual-…

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.