Since Egypt is outside the area where cuneiform writing developed, the Amarna Letters testify to the use of the Mesopotamian script and the Akkadian language across the eastern Mediterranean during this period.
William Blueher, metadata and collections librarian in Thomas J. Watson Library, shares a selection of charming letters from artist and illustrator Frederick Stuart Church.
Teen Advisory Group Members Emily Z. and Shivanna describe their impressions of Fragonard's The Love Letter, a work in the Museum's collection of European paintings.
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II discusses with Simon Callow and Alan Cumming the legacy of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy's relationship, which has been immortalized through their frequent letters and David Hockney's double portrait.
The Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts is a group designed to bring devotees of the decorative arts into closer contact with the collection.
