Former Graduate Intern Marlene April Yandrisevits explores the conservation process applied to a Tibetan ritual knife currently on view in Sacred Traditions of the Himalayas.
When this film was made a century ago, Cairo was much smaller, and to Western visitors the way of life along the Nile River appeared to resemble that of Pharaonic Egypt.
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared clas…
In general, the rise of still-life painting in the Northern and Spanish Netherlands … reflects the increasing urbanization of Dutch and Flemish society, which brought with it an emphasis on the home and personal possessions, commerce, trade, learning—all the aspects and diversions of everyday life.
