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How To Do Your Makeup Like an 18th-Century French Aristocrat

May 21, 2021

By Cecilia Zhou

Ever wanted to master the look of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat? Join Cecilia Zhou, Senior Guide at the Harvard Art Museums, for a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on Jean Marc Nattier's Portrait of a Woman (1753) from The Met collection.
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Chinese Painting

June 1, 2008

By Maxwell K. Hearn

Integrating calligraphy, poetry, and painting, scholar-artists for the first time combined the “three perfections” in a single work.
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Sienese Painting

October 1, 2004

By Keith Christiansen

Duccio may be considered the father of Sienese painting and is, together with Giotto, one of the founders of Western art.
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Northern Italian Renaissance Painting

October 1, 2006

By Andrea Bayer

Giorgione and Titian in Venice and Correggio in Parma were brilliant practitioners of what [Vasari] called the maniera moderna, or modern manner of painting.
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The Nabis and Decorative Painting

October 1, 2004

By Laura Auricchio

The Nabis rejected the Renaissance ideal of easel painting as a window onto a fictional world. Disavowing illusions of depth, they abandoned both linear perspective and modeling.
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Landscape Painting in Chinese Art

October 1, 2004

By Department of Asian Art

Painting was no longer about the description of the visible world; it became a means of conveying the inner landscape of the artist’s heart and mind.
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Roman Painting

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Although ancient literary references inform us of Roman paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials, works that have survived are in the durable medium of fresco that was used to adorn the interiors of private homes in Roman cities and in the countryside.
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Nepalese Painting

October 1, 2003

By Kathryn Selig Brown

Newari artists were renowned throughout Asia for the high quality of their workmanship. In certain periods, their style had tremendous influence on the art of Tibet and China.
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The Kano School of Painting

October 1, 2003

By Department of Asian Art

The Kano school was the longest lived and most influential school of painting in Japanese history; its more than 300-year prominence is unique in world art history.
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Botanical Imagery in European Painting

August 1, 2007

By Jennifer Meagher

The use of botanical imagery in painting proliferated especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as artists became increasingly interested in the realistic depiction of objects from the natural world.
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How To Do Your Makeup Like an 18th-Century French Aristocrat

Ever wanted to master the look of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat? Join Cecilia Zhou, Senior Guide at the Harvard Art Museums, for a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on Jean Marc Nattier's Portrait of a Woman (1753) from The Met collection.

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Focus on Asian Art

Jennifer Perry, Mary and James Wallach Conservator of Japanese Art, and Masanobu Yamazaki, Conservator, are carrying out the two-year treatment and remounting of Tagasode ("Whose Sleeves?"), a pair of folding screens formerly in the H. O. Havermeyer Collection.

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Focused Exhibition at The Met Explores Significance of Water to Indigenous Peoples and Nations in the United States

Exhibition Dates: June 23, 2022–April 2, 2023