This catalogue presents twelve superb works by leading fifteenth- and sixteenth-century artists of the Wu school, centered in the cosmopolitan city of Suzhou, by early Qing loyalist, Orthodox school, and individualist painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and by two twentieth-century masters. Richly illustrated and fully documented, each work is analyzed to elucidate its significance within its time, place, and the artist's oeuvre.

Antoniette Guglielmo gives broader context to a small but important collection of documents that has recently been digitized.

Former High School Intern Julia S. visits an eighteenth-century period room and feels transported back to the age of Marie Antoinette.

Assistant Educator Julie Marie Seibert introduces The Met's celebrations for the Year of the Dog.

It’s never too early to talk about race, justice, and bias with young people. It will likely require some homework on your part. First, you should take a moment to examine your own thoughts and feelings around the topics.

Former High School Intern Maryam details the life of Vigée Le Brun, a brilliant 18th-century portraitist, and shares how she can relate to the challenges the artist faced in her time.

Repoussé can be found across the globe and throughout thousands of years of history. Let's try our hand at designing our own repoussé breastplate using household items!

A magnificent selection of drawings by one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century, for the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), drawing was a fundamental activity. Ranging from delightful renderings of children and elegant portraits of noblemen and women to vigorous animal studies and beautiful landscapes, Rubens's drawings are renowned for their superb quality and variety. This exquisite book presents—in beautiful full-color reproductions—more than one hundred of the finest and most representative of Rubens's drawings, from private and public collections around the world. Essays by Anne-Marie Logan and Michiel C. Plomp provide overviews of Rubens's career as a draftsman and of the dispersal of his drawings among collectors after his death. The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artists early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked. This publication accompanies an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (January 14 to April 3, 2005)—the most comprehensive exhibition of Rubens's drawings ever held in the United States.