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video

Ah, Marie, Performed by Bob Grillo

March 22, 2022

By Bob Grillo

Bob Grillo performs Ah, Marie with his guitar.

Essay

The Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815)

October 1, 2003

By Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The so-called Manila Galleon (“Nao de China” or “Nao de Acapulco”) brought porcelain, silk, ivory, spices, and myriad other exotic goods from China to Mexico in exchange for New World silver.

Press Release

The Douglas Dillon Legacy Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum

Publication

"New Research on a Rare Enameled Horse Bit from the Angevin Court at Naples"

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 54 include conservators’ discoveries of Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia’s workshop techniques; a new reading of lavishly dressed women on tile panels from 17th-century Iran; and John Singer Sargent’s decisive role in choosing his socialite sitters’ fashionable attire.

Publication

"Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings in the Douglas Dillon Galleries"

editorial

Save the Date: An Open Access Anniversary Event at The Met

January 24, 2018

By Loic Tallon

Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon announces an event on February 13 to mark the one-year anniversary of Open Access at The Met.

editorial

The Future of Mapping and Wayfinding at The Met

April 18, 2016

By Loic Tallon

Loic Tallon, deputy chief of Digital, announces today's beta launch of the Museum's new digital map.

editorial

A New Chapter in The Met's Partnership with Google: We Wear Culture

June 9, 2017

By Loic Tallon

Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon announces The Met's latest major collaboration with Google Arts & Culture: We Wear Culture.

editorial

Introducing Open Access at The Met

February 7, 2017

By Loic Tallon

Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon discusses the Museum's move to Open Access, an important and exciting milestone in The Met's digital evolution.

Essay

Gardens in the French Renaissance

April 1, 2008

By Ian Wardropper

Gardens played many roles in French society—and thus found increasing representations in art—as places for relaxation, for music and dance, for poetry and learning, for horticulture, as symbolic spaces for myth and allegory, and finally as decorative motifs.

Art