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Thank You Very Much, Mr. Roboto

Assistant Museum Librarian Andrea Puccio and Senior Library Associate Catherine Paolillo discuss Watson Library's new iPad sign-in "book."
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American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament

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"Pattern Books by Gilles and Joseph Demarteau for Firearms Decoration in the French Rococo Style"

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Bashford Dean and Helmet Design During World War I

Curator Donald J. La Rocca describes Bashford Dean's contributions to the design of American helmets during World War I.
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A First Look at Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014

Curator Donald J. La Rocca introduces the exhibition Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014, opening tomorrow.
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A Look at the Life of Bashford Dean

Curator Donald J. La Rocca introduces Bashford Dean (1867–1928), founding curator of the Department of Arms and Armor.
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Bashford Dean and Japanese Arms and Armor

Curator Donald J. La Rocca describes Bashford Dean's crucial involvement in assembling the Met's collection of Japanese arms and armor.
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Bashford Dean and the Arms and Armor Collection of William H. Riggs

Curator Donald J. La Rocca discusses the relationship between the Met's Bashford Dean and the collector William H. Riggs, who donated his impressive arms and armor collection to the Museum in 1913.
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A Love Letter to The Love Letter

Teen Advisory Group Members Emily Z. and Shivanna describe their impressions of Fragonard's The Love Letter, a work in the Museum's collection of European paintings.
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The Rise of Pastel in the Eighteenth Century

The current exhibition Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe opens a window on one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo and Enlightenment eras. These works slipped from public notice long ago as they became associated with the artificiality of the ancien régime, and in modern times because their fragility discouraged exhibition and travel.
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Architectural elements from the La Roque Mansion, Astoria, New York

Date:ca. 1852
Medium:Plaster and wood
Accession Number:Inst.65.4
Location:On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 739
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Rococo Revival Parlor

The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).

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Rococo frame

Date:ca. 1765
Medium:Pine
Accession Number:1975.1.2309
Location:Not on view
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Rococo frame

Date:1750–60
Medium:Pine
Accession Number:1975.1.2308
Location:Not on view
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Rococo frame

Date:mid-18th century
Medium:Pine
Accession Number:1975.1.2222
Location:Not on view
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Rococo Fashion

Mela Koehler (Austrian, Vienna 1885–1960 Stockholm)

Date:1911
Medium:Color lithograph
Accession Number:WW.362
Location:Not on view
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Rococo Cartouche

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Medium:Black crayon
Accession Number:49.56.14
Location:Not on view
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David and Bathsheba

Date:third quarter 17th century
Medium:Canvas worked with silk linen thread; tent, Gobelin, knot, rococo, and couching stitches
Accession Number:64.101.1318
Location:Not on view
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The Five Senses and the Four Elements

Date:second quarter 17th century
Medium:Canvas worked with silk thread; tent, rococo, knot, and couching stitches
Accession Number:64.101.1315
Location:Not on view
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Esther and Ahasuerus

Date:mid-17th century
Medium:Canvas worked with silk thread; tent, Gobelin, satin, long-and-short, split, stem, knotted, straight, Ceylon, rococo, and detached buttonhole stitch variations; fringe
Accession Number:64.101.1317
Location:Not on view