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editorial

Experiencing The Forty Part Motet

October 9, 2013

By Andrew Winslow

Janet Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet, currently on view through December 8, boasts the distinction of being the first-ever exhibition of contemporary art in the seventy-five-year history of The Cloisters museum and gardens.

Publication

Mitsou: Forty Images

Mitsou: Quarante Images par Baltusz was published in 1921 by Rotapfel-Verlag of Erlenbach-Zürich and Leipzig. The original edition, 9 3/4 inches (24.9 centimeters) high and 7 3/4 inches (19.5 centimeters) wide, included thirteen pages of text and forty leaves of plates. The book contained a preface in French by Rainer Maria Rilke. Balthus's dedication reads: A MON CHER/ARSÈNE DAVITCHO/B.K. (To my dear/Arsène Davitcho/B.K. [Balthasar Klossowski de Rola]).

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"The Fortunes of Two Napoleonic Sculptural Projects"

editorial

Before Fortune-Telling: The History and Structure of Tarot Cards

April 8, 2016

By Tim Husband

Curator Tim Husband reveals the origins and structure of two tarot decks featured in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.

Publication

"Dendur: The Six-Hundred-Forty-Third Stone"

Publication

"An Early Etching by William Welles Bosworth"

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 58 include an investigation of how boldly colored orange glass and enamels were produced at Qing imperial workshops; a rare portrait of Joanna de Silva, an Indian servant, by British artist William Wood in 1792; and the extraordinary discovery of a hoard of German silver cups and tankards hidden for more than two hundred years.

Press Release

Late Antique Textiles and Modern Design

Essay

Maria Monaci Gallenga (1880–1944)

February 1, 2024

By Jessica Regan

Working in the early decades of the twentieth century, Italian designer Maria Monaci Gallenga captivated contemporaries with her luminous and richly patterned textiles.

Essay

Venice and the Islamic World: Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference

March 1, 2007

By Elizabeth Marwell, Trinita Kennedy, and Stefano Carboni

[Marco] Polo is simply the most famous of the thousands of Venetian merchants who sought to make a fortune by acquiring luxury goods, spices, and raw materials in the East and selling them for a high return on Venetian markets.

Essay

Assyria, 1365–609 B.C.

October 1, 2004, revised April 1, 2010

Fortuny (Italian, founded 1906)

Date: 1930s
Accession Number: C.I.58.61.4