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editorial

Custodian of the Attic: The Francis Henry Taylor Records

February 5, 2020

By James Moske

Managing Archivist of Museum Archives James Moske discusses the recently digitized records of former Met director Francis Henry Taylor.

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A Reinstalled Bust Honors an Early African American Artist

February 15, 2018

By Will Fenstermaker

The relocation of Charles Grafly's portrait bust of Henry Ossawa Tanner connects the work of two American artists.

Essay

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography

October 1, 2004

By Malcolm Daniel

Talbot conceived and brought about a wholly new way of making pictures, perfected the optical and chemical aspects of photography, and learned to use the new medium to make complex images for the botanist, historian, traveler, and artist.

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"Tiepolo, Henry James, and Edith Wharton"

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"The Wilton 'Montmorency' Armor: An Italian Armor for Henry VIII"

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Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town

March 6, 2023–February 4, 2024

Below the monarch, nobility, and land-owning gentry in the highly stratified society of sixteenth-century England stood those known as the “middling sort.” Like their compatriots of higher rank, they too saw art and architecture as a means of self-…

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"The Architecture of 'Playe': Henry Hamlyn's House in Tudor Exeter"

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 59 include new discoveries with regard to unexpectedly playful facade sculptures on a 16th-century English merchant's house; a study of small devotional paintings on copper made in Mexico by Nicolás Enríquez for the private use of a Spanish merchant; and the rich story of an Ottoman prayer rug, the restoration of which was overseen by previously overlooked 20th-century tastemaker Robert-Sadia Pardo.

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"A Technical Study of Henry Lerolle's Organ Rehearsal"

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Post Your America

November 15, 2016

By Greer

Former High School Intern Greer recalls hosting the event she created for the October 2016 Teens Take The Met event as part of The Met's High School Internship Program.

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