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Past Exhibition

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art

21 novembre 2022–02 aprile 2023

In Maya art, the gods are depicted at all stages of life: as infants, as adults at the peak of their maturity and influence, and as they age. The gods could die, and some were born anew, serving as models of regeneration and resilience. In Lives of…

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Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) and the Spanish Enlightenment

October 1, 2003

By James Voorhies

Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.

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Goya: 67 Drawings

During his eighty-two years of life, Francisco José Goya y Lucientes drew and painted for about seventy, etched for some fifty, and made lithographs for five or ten. Each mode of expression carried his fame differently to different countries. In Spain his paintings made him widely known before he was forty, while his etchings fell flat. When he was seventy-nine some of his prints were copied in Paris, and his big lithographs were admired there shortly after his death in 1828. His drawings have been the revelation of the last half-century.

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"Goya and the Altamira Family"

Ever since its arrival at the Metropolitan as part of the outstanding collection of Old Master paintings bequeathed by New York financier and philanthropist Jules Bache, Goya's portrait of Don Manuel Osorio, the three- or four-year-old son of the conde de Altamira, has ranked as one of the museum's most popular paintings In celebration of the reinstallation of the Metropolitan's European Paintings galleries, inaugurated last May, the condesa de Altamira and her son have been temporarily reunited in a gallery devoted to Goya and his contemporaries in Spain. But from the outset this move was planned as just the first stage of a more eventful family reunion that would also include Don Manuel's older brother, Vicente Osorio, and their father, Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán, conde de Altamira: all four pictures outstanding works by Goya.

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"Discerning Goya"

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Gold in Ancient Egypt

January 1, 2017

By Deborah Schorsch

Although gold as a commodity appears to have been largely controlled by the king, Egyptians of less than royal status also owned gold jewelry.

Past Exhibition

The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met

24 maggio 2021–07 gennaio 2024

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…

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Women Leaders in African History: Dona Beatriz, Kongo Prophet

October 1, 2003

By Alexander Ives Bortolot

Dona Beatriz claimed to be possessed by the spirit of Saint Anthony, who addressed the kingdom’s problems through her.

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Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art

An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.

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Ancient Maya Sculpture

April 1, 2016

By James Doyle

Maya sculptors celebrated the human form in a naturalistic way, portraying royal individuals as they sit, stand, hold things, and interact with one another.