Antonio Canova is considered the greatest Neoclassical sculptor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

"It seems to me that aesthetically this goes well beyond meeting the need of surviving into the afterlife."

How artists perceived to have “feminine” traits have faced exclusion in the history of European painting.

action, basso continuo, clavichord, canzona, fantasia, fipple, harpsichord, luthier, motet, octave, organ, polyphony, sordellina, viol, viola, violoncello

Rachel High converses with curator Iria Candela, author of the exhibition catalogue for Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms, about the artist's career and significance in the history of modern and contemporary art.

Over time, Daoism developed into an organized religion—largely in response to the institutional structure of Buddhism—with an ever-growing canon of texts and pantheon of gods, and a significant number of schools with often distinctly different ideas and approaches.

Early in 1972 the Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition of photographs that held visitors in fascination. The subject was China: the land, the people, the changing ways of life there. The perspective was historical, beginning with camera images of a century ago and progressing to documentary material almost as timely as today's news developments. This book contains the exhibition's highlights: work by the Scot, John Thomson, showing us China when the country was first generally open to Western travelers; photographs Edgar Snow and his wife made in Red territory during the years of struggle between the Communists under Mao Tse-tung and the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek; views of the Sino-Japanese conflict made by Robert Capa in 1938; images by Henri Cartier-Bresson encompassing the final days of the Kuomintang and the emergence of the new China; and work by Marc Riboud and René Burri capturing the present home look of the Chinese People's Republic, world power. Comments by the photographers themselves accompany their work, and a comprehensive, well-illustrated introduction traces the history of Western photography in China. One visitor to the exhibition, struck with the revelations the photographs provided, wrote, "We are left with the feeling of having observed not a mere century of the dramatic vicissitudes of a civilization, but something closer to a millennium." A similar impact is to be found in the present book.

Five case studies for select recent acquisitions demonstrate the varied and complex nature of provenance research at The Met.