Now on view in Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620, Associate Curator Femke Speelberg welcomes to the Met the woodblock Albrecht Dürer created to produce his woodcut rendition of Da Vinci's The Fifth Knot.
Drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art and art making. The exhibition begins with sacred images from early…
The porcelain the Dutch brought to Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was some of the first Japanese art to which Europeans were exposed.
