Jump to content
tickets
Member
|
Make a donation
Search
Visit
Plan Your Visit
Buy Tickets
Become a Member
Free Tours
Museum Map
Food and Drink
Accessibility
Group Visits
Exhibitions and Events
Exhibitions
Events
Free Tours
Performances
Art
The Met Collection
Curatorial Areas
Conservation and Scientific Research
Learn with Us
Learning Resources
Publications
Timeline of Art History
Workshops and Activities
Articles, videos, and podcasts
Research
Libraries and Research Centers
Shop
Search
Go
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Essays
Works of Art
Chronologies
Essays
Time period
All Periods
Region
All Regions
Theme
All Themes
Artists
Rulers
Departments / Collections
New Essays
La orfebrería andina antigua (900–1532 d.C.)
Ancient Andean Metalworking (900-1532 CE)
Modern Iranian Art
Gold, Griffins, and Greeks: Scythian Art and Cultural Interactions in the Black Sea
Ottoman Wedding Dresses, East to West
All Essays
(1059)
Abraham and David Roentgen
Abstract Expressionism
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803)
The Aesthetic of the Sketch in Nineteenth-Century France
African Christianity in Ethiopia
African Christianity in Kongo
African Influences in Modern Art
African Lost-Wax Casting
African Rock Art
African Rock Art of the Central Zone
African Rock Art of the Northern Zone
African Rock Art of the Southern Zone
African Rock Art: Game Pass
African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C.–?)
African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone
Africans in Ancient Greek Art
Afro-Portuguese Ivories
The Age of Iron in West Africa
The Age of Saint Louis (1226–1270)
The Age of Süleyman “the Magnificent” (r. 1520–1566)
The Akkadian Period (ca. 2350–2150 B.C.)
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and American Photography
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and His Circle
Alice Cordelia Morse (1863–1961)
Allegories of the Four Continents
The Amarna Letters
America Comes of Age: 1876–1900
American Bronze Casting
American Federal-Era Period Rooms
American Furniture, 1620–1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
American Furniture, 1730–1790: Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles
American Georgian Interiors (Mid-Eighteenth-Century Period Rooms)
American Impressionism
American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s
American Needlework in the Eighteenth Century
American Neoclassical Sculptors Abroad
American Portrait Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
American Portrait Miniatures of the Nineteenth Century
American Quilts and Coverlets
American Relief Sculpture
American Revival Styles, 1840–76
American Rococo
American Scenes of Everyday Life, 1840–1910
American Sculpture at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
American Silver Vessels for Wine, Beer, and Punch
American Women Sculptors
Americans in Paris, 1860–1900
Amulets and Talismans from the Islamic World
Anatomy in the Renaissance
Ancient American Jade
Ancient Andean Metalworking (900-1532 CE)
Ancient Egyptian Amulets
Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels
Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art
Ancient Greek Dress
Ancient Maya Painted Ceramics
Ancient Maya Sculpture
Ancient Near Eastern Openwork Bronzes
Andean Textiles
Animals in Ancient Near Eastern Art
Animals in Medieval Art
Ann Lowe (ca. 1898–1981)
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609)
Anselm Kiefer (born 1945)
Antelopes and Queens: Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan: A Groundbreaking Exhibition at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1960
Antique Engraved Gems and Renaissance Collectors
Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)
Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430–1479)
The Antonine Dynasty (138–193)
Antonio Canova (1757–1822)
Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones
Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
Architecture in Ancient Greece
Architecture in Renaissance Italy
Architecture, Furniture, and Silver from Colonial Dutch America
Archtop Guitars and Mandolins
Arms and Armor in Medieval Europe
Arms and Armor in Renaissance Europe
Arms and Armor—Common Misconceptions and Frequently Asked Questions
Art and Craft in Archaic Sparta
Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium
Art and Death in the Middle Ages
Art and Identity in the British North American Colonies, 1700–1776
Art and Love in the Italian Renaissance
Art and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Turkey
Art and Photography: 1990s to the Present
Art and Photography: The 1980s
Art and Society of the New Republic, 1776–1800
Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People
Art for the Christian Liturgy in the Middle Ages
Art Nouveau
The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.)
The Art of Ivory and Gold in Northern Europe around 1000 A.D.
The Art of the Abbasid Period (750–1258)
The Art of the Almoravid and Almohad Periods (ca. 1062–1269)
Art of the Asante Kingdom
The Art of the Ayyubid Period (ca. 1171–1260)
The Art of the Book in the Ilkhanid Period
The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages
Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868)
The Art of the Fatimid Period (909–1171)
Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C.
Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition
The Art of the Ilkhanid Period (1256–1353)
Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400–1600
The Art of the Mamluk Period (1250–1517)
The Art of the Mughals after 1600
The Art of the Mughals before 1600
The Art of the Nasrid Period (1232–1492)
The Art of the Ottomans after 1600
The Art of the Ottomans before 1600
Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style
Art of the Roman Provinces, 1–500 A.D.
The Art of the Safavids before 1600
The Art of the Seljuq Period in Anatolia (1081–1307)
The Art of the Seljuqs of Iran (ca. 1040–1157)
Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Naples
Art of the Sufis
The Art of the Timurid Period (ca. 1370–1507)
The Art of the Umayyad Period (661–750)
The Art of the Umayyad Period in Spain (711–1031)
Art, Architecture, and the City in the Reign of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten (ca. 1353–1336 B.C.)
The Art, Form, and Function of Gilt Bronze in the French Interior
Arthur Dove (1880–1946)
An Artisan’s Tomb in New Kingdom Egypt
Artistic Interaction among Cultures in Medieval Iberia
The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
The Arts of Iran, 1600–1800
Arts of Power Associations in West Africa
The Arts of the Book in the Islamic World, 1600–1800
Arts of the Greater Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal
Arts of the Mission Schools in Mexico
Arts of the San People in Nomansland
Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550–1850
Asante Royal Funerary Arts
Asante Textile Arts
The Ashcan School
Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886)
The Asmat
Assyria, 1365–609 B.C.
The Assyrian Sculpture Court
Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World
Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794)
Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques
Athletics in Ancient Greece
Augustan Rule (27 B.C.–14 A.D.)
The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase
Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907)
Aztec Stone Sculpture
Babylon
The Ballet
The Bamana Ségou State
Barbarians and Romans
The Barbizon School: French Painters of Nature
Baroque Rome
Baseball Cards in the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection
Bashford Dean and the Development of Helmets and Body Armor during World War I
The Batak
Baths and Bathing Culture in the Middle East: The Hammam
The Bauhaus, 1919–1933
Benin Chronology
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955)
The Bikini
Birds of the Andes
Birth and Family in the Italian Renaissance
The Birth and Infancy of Christ in Italian Painting
The Birth of Islam
Blackwater Draw (ca. 9500–3000 B.C.)
Blackwork: A New Technique in the Field of Ornament Prints (ca. 1585–1635)
Blown Glass from Islamic Lands
Board Games from Ancient Egypt and the Near East
Body/Landscape: Photography and the Reconfiguration of the Sculptural Object
The Book of Hours: A Medieval Bestseller
Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor
Botanical Imagery in European Painting
Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance
Bronze Statuettes of the American West, 1850–1915
Buddhism and Buddhist Art
Building Stories: Contextualizing Architecture at the Cloisters
Burgundian Netherlands: Court Life and Patronage
Burgundian Netherlands: Private Life
Byzantine Art under Islam
The Byzantine City of Amorium
Byzantine Ivories
The Byzantine State under Justinian I (Justinian the Great)
Byzantium (ca. 330–1453)
Calligraphy in Islamic Art
Cameo Appearances
Candace Wheeler (1827–1923)
Capac Hucha as an Inca Assemblage
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610) and His Followers
Carolingian Art
Carpets from the Islamic World, 1600–1800
Cave Sculpture from the Karawari
Ceramic Technology in the Seljuq Period: Stonepaste in Syria and Iran in the Eleventh Century
Ceramic Technology in the Seljuq Period: Stonepaste in Syria and Iran in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
Ceramics in the French Renaissance
Cerro Sechín
Cerro Sechín: Stone Sculpture
The Cesnola Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Charles Eames (1907–1978) and Ray Eames (1913–1988)
Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895) and the House of Worth
Charles James (1906–1978)
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965)
Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000 B.C.)
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Cloisonné
Chinese Gardens and Collectors’ Rocks
Chinese Handscrolls
Chinese Hardstone Carvings
Chinese Painting
The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress
The Chopine
Christian Dior (1905–1957)
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904)
Classical Antiquity in the Middle Ages
Classical Art and Modern Dress
Classical Cyprus (ca. 480–ca. 310 B.C.)
Classicism in Modern Dress
Claude Lorrain (1604/5?–1682)
Claude Monet (1840–1926)
Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in Early Colonial America
Collecting for the Kunstkammer
Colonial Kero Cups
Colossal Temples of the Roman Near East
Commedia dell’arte
Company Painting in Nineteenth-Century India
Conceptual Art and Photography
Constantinople after 1261
Contemporary Deconstructions of Classical Dress
Contexts for the Display of Statues in Classical Antiquity
Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalayas
Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Countess da Castiglione
Courtly Art of the Ilkhanids
Courtship and Betrothal in the Italian Renaissance
Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972)
The Croome Court Tapestry Room, Worcestershire
The Crucifixion and Passion of Christ in Italian Painting
The Crusades (1095–1291)
Ctesiphon
Cubism
The Cult of the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages
Cut and Engraved Glass from Islamic Lands
Cyprus—Island of Copper
Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography
The Daguerreian Age in France: 1839–55
The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839–60
The Damascus Room
Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)
Daoism and Daoist Art
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848)
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece
The Decoration of Arms and Armor
The Decoration of European Armor
The Decoration of Tibetan Arms and Armor
Design Reform
Design, 1900–1925
Design, 1925–50
Design, 1950–75
Design, 1975–2000
The Development of the Recorder
Direct versus Indirect Casting of Small Bronzes in the Italian Renaissance
Divination and Senufo Sculpture in West Africa
Domenichino (1581–1641)
Domestic Art in Renaissance Italy
Donatello (ca. 1386–1466)
Drawing in the Middle Ages
Dress Rehearsal: The Origins of the Costume Institute
Dressing for the Cocktail Hour
Dualism in Andean Art
Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) and Charles-Honoré Lannuier (1779–1819)
Dutch and Flemish Artists in Rome, 1500–1600
Eagles After the American Revolution
Early Cycladic Art and Culture
Early Documentary Photography
Early Dynastic Sculpture, 2900–2350 B.C.
Early Excavations in Assyria
Early Histories of Photography in West Africa (1860–1910)
Early Maori Wood Carvings
Early Modernists and Indian Traditions
Early Netherlandish Painting
Early Photographers of the American West: 1860s–70s
Early Qur’ans (8th–Early 13th Century)
East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain
East Asian Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings
Easter Island
Eastern Religions in the Roman World
Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C.
Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Bronze Sculpture
Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Painting and Drawing
Edo-Period Japanese Porcelain
Édouard Baldus (1813–1889)
Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
Edward Hopper (1882–1967)
Edward J. Steichen (1879–1973): The Photo-Secession Years
Edward Lycett (1833–1910)
Egypt in the Late Period (ca. 664–332 B.C.)
Egypt in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.)
Egypt in the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.)
Egypt in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2130 B.C.)
Egypt in the Ptolemaic Period
Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070–664 B.C.)
Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production
Egyptian Modern Art
Egyptian Red Gold
Egyptian Revival
Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile
Eighteenth-Century European Dress
The Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portrait
Eighteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
Eighteenth-Century Women Painters in France
El Greco (1541–1614)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
Elizabethan England
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973)
Empire Style, 1800–1815
The Empires of the Western Sudan
The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire
The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire
The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire
Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands
English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras
English Ornament Prints and Furniture Books in Eighteenth-Century America
English Silver, 1600–1800
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) and Art
Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879–1948) in Persepolis
Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879–1948) in Samarra
Etching in Eighteenth-Century France: Artists and Amateurs
The Etching Revival in Nineteenth-Century France
Ethiopia’s Enduring Cultural Heritage
Ethiopian Healing Scrolls
Etruscan Art
Etruscan Language and Inscriptions
Eugène Atget (1857–1927)
Europe and the Age of Exploration
Europe and the Islamic World, 1600–1800
European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
European Exploration of the Pacific, 1600–1800
European Revivalism
European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1400–1600
European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1600–1800
Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms
Exoticism in the Decorative Arts
Extravagant Monstrosities: Gold- and Silversmith Designs in the Auricular Style
Eynan/Ain Mallaha (12,500–10,000 B.C.)
Fabricating Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Boxwood Miniatures
The Face in Medieval Sculpture
Famous Makers of Arms and Armors and European Centers of Production
Fashion in European Armor
Fashion in European Armor, 1000–1300
Fashion in European Armor, 1300–1400
Fashion in European Armor, 1400–1500
Fashion in European Armor, 1500–1600
Fashion in European Armor, 1600–1700
Fashion in Safavid Iran
Fatimid Jewelry
Fauvism
The Feathered Serpent Pyramid and Ciudadela of Teotihuacan (ca. 150–250 CE)
Fell’s Cave (9000–8000 B.C.)
Fernand Léger (1881–1955)
Feudalism and Knights in Medieval Europe
Figural Representation in Islamic Art
Filippino Lippi (ca. 1457–1504)
Fire Gilding of Arms and Armor
The Five Wares of South Italian Vase Painting
The Flavian Dynasty (69–96 A.D.)
Flemish Harpsichords and Virginals
Flood Stories
Folios from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Folios from the Jami‘ al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)
Fontainebleau
Food and Drink in European Painting, 1400–1800
Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–8th Century)
Fra Angelico (ca. 1395–1455)
Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) and the Spanish Enlightenment
François Boucher (1703–1770)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)
Frans Hals (1582/83–1666)
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)
Frederic Remington (1861–1909)
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863–1937)
The French Academy in Rome
French Art Deco
French Art Pottery
French Decorative Arts during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715)
French Faience
French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Case Furniture
French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Seat Furniture
French Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
French Silver in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Frescoes and Wall Painting in Late Byzantine Art
From Geometric to Informal Gardens in the Eighteenth Century
From Italy to France: Gardens in the Court of Louis XIV and After
From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865–1915
The Fulani/Fulbe People
The Function of Armor in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Funerary Vases in Southern Italy and Sicily
Furnishings during the Reign of Louis XIV (1654–1715)
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel
Gandhara
Gardens in the French Renaissance
Gardens of Western Europe, 1600–1800
Genre Painting in Northern Europe
Geometric Abstraction
Geometric and Archaic Cyprus
Geometric Art in Ancient Greece
Geometric Patterns in Islamic Art
George Inness (1825–1894)
George Washington: Man, Myth, Monument
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and Neo-Impressionism
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)
Gerard David (born about 1455, died 1523)
German and Austrian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
The Ghent Altarpiece
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680)
Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828)
Gilgamesh
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
Gladiators: Types and Training
Glass from Islamic Lands
Glass Ornaments in Late Antiquity and Early Islam (ca. 500–1000)
Glass with Mold-Blown Decoration from Islamic Lands
The Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
Gold in Ancient Egypt
Gold in Asante Courtly Arts
Gold in the Ancient Americas
Gold of the Indies
Gold, Griffins, and Greeks: Scythian Art and Cultural Interactions in the Black Sea
The Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
The Golden Harpsichord of Michele Todini (1616–1690)
Golden Treasures: The Royal Tombs of Silla
Goryeo Celadon
Gothic Art
The Grand Tour
The Graphic Art of Max Klinger
Great Plains Indians Musical Instruments
Great Serpent Mound
Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th Century)
The Greater Ottoman Empire, 1600–1800
Greek Art in the Archaic Period
Greek Gods and Religious Practices
Greek Hydriai (Water Jars) and Their Artistic Decoration
The Greek Key and Divine Attributes in Modern Dress
Greek Terracotta Figurines with Articulated Limbs
Group f/64
The Guitar
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)
Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884)
Hagia Sophia, 532–37
The Halaf Period (6500–5500 B.C.)
Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–220 A.D.)
Hanae Mori (1926–2022)
Hans Talhoffer’s Fight Book, a Sixteenth-Century Manuscript about the Art of Fighting
Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh’s Photographer
Hasanlu in the Iron Age
Haute Couture
Heian Period (794–1185)
Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
Hellenistic Jewelry
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Henry Kirke Brown (1814–1886), John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), and Realism in American Sculpture
Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
Hinduism and Hindu Art
Hippopotami in Ancient Egypt
Hiram Powers (1805–1873)
The Hittites
The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs, 1400–1600
Hopewell (1–400 A.D.)
Horse Armor in Europe
Hot-worked Glass from Islamic Lands
The House of Jeanne Hallée (1870–1924)
The Housemistress in New Kingdom Egypt: Hatnefer
How Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries Were Made
The Hudson River School
Hungarian Silver
Icons and Iconoclasm in Byzantium
The Idea and Invention of the Villa
Ife (from ca. 6th Century)
Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)
Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.)
Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th Century)
Images of Antiquity in Limoges Enamels in the French Renaissance
Impressionism: Art and Modernity
In Pursuit of White: Porcelain in the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910
Indian Knoll (3000–2000 B.C.)
Indian Textiles: Trade and Production
Indigenous Arts of the Caribbean
Industrialization and Conflict in America: 1840–1875
The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860
Inland Niger Delta
Intellectual Pursuits of the Hellenistic Age
Intentional Alterations of Early Netherlandish Painting
Interior Design in England, 1600–1800
Interiors Imagined: Folding Screens, Garments, and Clothing Stands
International Pictorialism
Internationalism in the Tang Dynasty (618–907)
Introduction to Prehistoric Art, 20,000–8000 B.C.
The Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian Periods (2004–1595 B.C.)
Islamic Arms and Armor
Islamic Art and Culture: The Venetian Perspective
Islamic Art of the Deccan
Islamic Carpets in European Paintings
Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages
Italian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
Italian Renaissance Frames
Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800
Ivory Carving in the Gothic Era, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano (ca. 1510–1592)
Jade in Costa Rica
Jade in Mesoamerica
Jain Manuscript Painting
Jain Sculpture
James Cox (ca. 1723–1800): Goldsmith and Entrepreneur
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) as Etcher
Jan Gossart (ca. 1478–1532) and His Circle
Jan van Eyck (ca. 1390–1441)
The Japanese Blade: Technology and Manufacture
Japanese Illustrated Handscrolls
Japanese Incense
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
Japanese Weddings in the Edo Period (1615–1868)
Japanese Writing Boxes
Japonisme
Jasper Johns (born 1930)
Jean Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805)
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
Jews and the Arts in Medieval Europe
Jews and the Decorative Arts in Early Modern Italy
Jiahu (ca. 7000–5700 B.C.)
Joachim Tielke (1641–1719)
Joan Miró (1893–1983)
Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) and The Milkmaid
John Constable (1776–1837)
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872)
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)
John Townsend (1733–1809)
Jōmon Culture (ca. 10,500–ca. 300 B.C.)
Joseon Buncheong Ware: Between Celadon and Porcelain
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Juan de Flandes (active by 1496, died 1519)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (27 B.C.–68 A.D.)
Kamakura and Nanbokucho Periods (1185–1392)
The Kano School of Painting
The Kilt
Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Funerary Arts
Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Textile Arts
Kingdoms of Madagascar: Maroserana and Merina
Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Kuba Kingdom
Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Luba and Lunda Empires
Kings and Queens of Egypt
Kings of Brightness in Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Art
The Kirtlington Park Room, Oxfordshire
The Kithara in Ancient Greece
Kodak and the Rise of Amateur Photography
Kofun Period (ca. 300–710)
Kongo Ivories
Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th–9th Century)
Korean Munbangdo Paintings
Kushan Empire (ca. Second Century B.C.–Third Century A.D.)
La orfebrería andina antigua (900–1532 d.C.)
La Venta
La Venta: Sacred Architecture
La Venta: Stone Sculpture
The Labors of Herakles
Lacquerware of East Asia
Landscape Painting in Chinese Art
Landscape Painting in the Netherlands
The Lansdowne Dining Room, London
Lapita Pottery (ca. 1500–500 B.C.)
Lascaux (ca. 15,000 B.C.)
Late Eighteenth-Century American Drawings
Late Medieval German Sculpture
Late Medieval German Sculpture: Images for the Cult and for Private Devotion
Late Medieval German Sculpture: Materials and Techniques
Late Medieval German Sculpture: Polychromy and Monochromy
The Later Ottomans and the Impact of Europe
Le Colis de Trianon-Versailles and Paris Openings
The Legacy of Genghis Khan
The Legacy of Jacques Louis David (1748–1825)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Letterforms and Writing in Contemporary Art
Life of Jesus of Nazareth
Life of the Buddha
List of Rulers of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
List of Rulers of Ancient Sudan
List of Rulers of Byzantium
List of Rulers of China
List of Rulers of Europe
List of Rulers of Japan
List of Rulers of Korea
List of Rulers of Mesopotamia
List of Rulers of South Asia
List of Rulers of the Ancient Greek World
List of Rulers of the Islamic World
List of Rulers of the Parthian Empire
List of Rulers of the Roman Empire
List of Rulers of the Sasanian Empire
Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
Longevity in Chinese Art
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933)
Louis-Rémy Robert (1810–1882)
Lovers in Italian Mythological Prints
The Lure of Montmartre, 1880–1900
The Lute
Luxury Arts of Rome
Lydenburg Heads (ca. 500 A.D.)
Lydia and Phrygia
Made in India, Found in Egypt: Red Sea Textile Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Made in Italy: Italian Fashion from 1950 to Now
The Magic of Signs and Patterns in North African Art
Maiolica in the Renaissance
Mal’ta (ca. 20,000 B.C.)
Mangarevan Sculpture
The Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815)
Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries
The Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds) of 1487
Manuscript Illumination in Italy, 1400–1600
Manuscript Illumination in Northern Europe
Mapungubwe (ca. 1050–1270)
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
Maria Monaci Gallenga (1880–1944)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926)
The Master of Monte Oliveto (active about 1305–35)
The Materials and Techniques of American Quilts and Coverlets
The Materials and Techniques of English Embroidery of the Late Tudor and Stuart Eras
Mauryan Empire (ca. 323–185 B.C.)
Medicine in Classical Antiquity
Medicine in the Middle Ages
Medieval Aquamanilia
Medieval European Sculpture for Buildings
Medusa in Ancient Greek Art
Mendicant Orders in the Medieval World
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Mesopotamian Creation Myths
Mesopotamian Deities
Mesopotamian Magic in the First Millennium B.C.
The Metropolitan Museum’s Excavations at Nishapur
The Metropolitan Museum’s Excavations at Ctesiphon
The Metropolitan Museum’s Excavations at Qasr-i Abu Nasr
Michiel Sweerts and Biblical Subjects in Dutch Art
Micronesia
The Middle Babylonian / Kassite Period (ca. 1595–1155 B.C.) in Mesopotamia
Military Music in American and European Traditions
Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)
Minoan Crete
Mission Héliographique, 1851
Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto: Japanese Fashion in the Twentieth Century
Moche Decorated Ceramics
Moche Portrait Vessels
Modern and Contemporary Art in Iran
Modern Art in India
Modern Art in West and East Pakistan
Modern Art in West Asia: Colonial to Post-colonial
Modern Iranian Art
Modern Materials: Plastics
Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
Momoyama Period (1573–1615)
Monasticism in Western Medieval Europe
The Mon-Dvaravati Tradition of Early North-Central Thailand
The Mongolian Tent in the Ilkhanid Period
Monte Albán
Monte Albán: Sacred Architecture
Monte Albán: Stone Sculpture
Monumental Architecture of the Aksumite Empire
The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th Century)
Mosaic Glass from Islamic Lands
Mountain and Water: Korean Landscape Painting, 1400–1800
Muromachi Period (1392–1573)
Music and Art of China
Music in Ancient Greece
Music in the Ancient Andes
Music in the Renaissance
Musical Instruments of Oceania
Musical Instruments of the Indian Subcontinent
Musical Terms for the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Mycenaean Civilization
Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World
Nabataean Kingdom and Petra
The Nabis and Decorative Painting
Nadar (1820–1910)
The Nahal Mishmar Treasure
Nan Madol
Nature in Chinese Culture
The Nature of Islamic Art
The Neoclassical Temple
Neoclassicism
Neolithic Period in China
Nepalese Painting
Nepalese Sculpture
Netsuke: From Fashion Fobs to Coveted Collectibles
New Caledonia
The New Documentary Tradition in Photography
New Ireland
New Vision Photography
A New Visual Language Transmitted Across Asia
The New York Dutch Room
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665)
Nimrud
Nineteenth-Century American Drawings
Nineteenth-Century American Folk Art
Nineteenth-Century American Jewelry
Nineteenth-Century American Silver
Nineteenth-Century Classical Music
Nineteenth-Century Court Arts in India
Nineteenth-Century English Silver
Nineteenth-Century European Textile Production
Nineteenth-Century French Realism
Nineteenth-Century Iran: Art and the Advent of Modernity
Nineteenth-Century Iran: Continuity and Revivalism
Nineteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
Nineveh
Nō Costume
Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)
Northern Italian Renaissance Painting
Northern Mannerism in the Early Sixteenth Century
Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127)
Northwest Coast Indians Musical Instruments
The Nude in Baroque and Later Art
The Nude in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The Nude in Western Art and Its Beginnings in Antiquity
Nudity and Classical Themes in Byzantine Art
Nuptial Furnishings in the Italian Renaissance
The Old Assyrian Period (ca. 2000–1600 B.C.)
Olmec Art
The Opera
Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art
Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress
The Origins of Writing
Ottoman Wedding Dresses, East to West
Ottonian Art
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
Pachmari Hills (ca. 9000–3000 B.C.)
Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria
Painting Formats in East Asian Art
Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500
Painting in Oil in the Low Countries and Its Spread to Southern Europe
Painting the Life of Christ in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Paintings of Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance
Palmyra
Paolo Veronese (1528–1588)
The Papacy and the Vatican Palace
The Papacy during the Renaissance
Papyrus in Ancient Egypt
Papyrus-Making in Egypt
The Parthian Empire (247 B.C.–224 A.D.)
Pastoral Charms in the French Renaissance
Patronage at the Early Valois Courts (1328–1461)
Patronage at the Later Valois Courts (1461–1589)
Patronage of Jean de Berry (1340–1416)
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Paul Klee (1879–1940)
Paul Poiret (1879–1944)
Paul Revere, Jr. (1734–1818)
Paul Strand (1890–1976)
Period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386–581)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641): Paintings
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641): Works on Paper
Petrus Christus (active by 1444, died 1475/76)
The Phoenicians (1500–300 B.C.)
Photographers in Egypt
Photography and Surrealism
Photography and the Civil War, 1861–65
Photography at the Bauhaus
Photography in Düsseldorf
Photography in Europe, 1945–60
Photography in Postwar America, 1945-60
Photography in the Expanded Field: Painting, Performance, and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Photojournalism and the Picture Press in Germany
Phrygia, Gordion, and King Midas in the Late Eighth Century B.C.
The Piano: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731)
The Piano: Viennese Instruments
Pictorialism in America
The Pictures Generation
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947): The Late Interiors
Pierre Didot the Elder (1761–1853)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525–1569)
Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe
The Pipa
Poetic Allusions in the Rajput and Pahari Painting of India
Poets in Italian Mythological Prints
Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
Polychrome Sculpture in Spanish America
Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture
Popular Religion: Magical Uses of Imagery in Byzantine Art
Portrait Painting in England, 1600–1800
Portraits of African Leadership
Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers
Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials
Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors
Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe
The Portuguese in Africa, 1415–1600
Post-Impressionism
Postmodernism: Recent Developments in Art in India
Postmodernism: Recent Developments in Art in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Post-Revolutionary America: 1800–1840
The Postwar Print Renaissance in America
Poverty Point (2000–1000 B.C.)
The Praenestine Cistae
Prague during the Rule of Rudolf II (1583–1612)
Prague, 1347–1437
Pre-Angkor Traditions: The Mekong Delta and Peninsular Thailand
Precisionism
Prehistoric Cypriot Art and Culture
Prehistoric Stone Sculpture from New Guinea
The Pre-Raphaelites
Presidents of the United States of America
The Print in the Nineteenth Century
The Printed Image in the West: Aquatint
The Printed Image in the West: Drypoint
The Printed Image in the West: Engraving
The Printed Image in the West: Etching
The Printed Image in the West: History and Techniques
The Printed Image in the West: Mezzotint
The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut
Printmaking in Mexico, 1900–1950
Private Devotion in Medieval Christianity
Profane Love and Erotic Art in the Italian Renaissance
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur: Private Tombs to the North
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur: Queens and Princesses
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur: Temples
The Qin
Qin Dynasty (221–206 B.C.)
The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Courtiers, Officials, and Professional Artists
The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Loyalists and Individualists
The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Painting
The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): The Traditionalists
The Rag-dung
Rare Coins from Nishapur
Real Alto
Recognizing the Gods
The Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity
The Reformation
Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Christianity
Religion and Culture in North America, 1600–1700
The Religious Arts under the Ilkhanids
The Religious Relationship between Byzantium and the West
Rembrandt (1606–1669): Paintings
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669): Prints
Renaissance Drawings: Material and Function
Renaissance Keyboards
Renaissance Organs
Renaissance Velvet Textiles
Renaissance Violins
Retrospective Styles in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Rinpa Painting Style
The Rise of Macedon and the Conquests of Alexander the Great
The Rise of Modernity in South Asia
The Rise of Paper Photography in 1850s France
The Rise of Paper Photography in Italy, 1839–55
The Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela
Roger Fenton (1819–1869)
The Roman Banquet
Roman Cameo Glass
Roman Copies of Greek Statues
Roman Egypt
The Roman Empire (27 B.C.–393 A.D.)
Roman Games: Playing with Animals
Roman Glass
Roman Gold-Band Glass
Roman Housing
Roman Inscriptions
Roman Luxury Glass
Roman Mold-Blown Glass
Roman Mosaic and Network Glass
Roman Painting
Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian
Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle
The Roman Republic
Roman Sarcophagi
Roman Stuccowork
Romanesque Art
Romanticism
Saint Petersburg
Saints and Other Sacred Byzantine Figures
Saints in Medieval Christian Art
The Salon and the Royal Academy in the Nineteenth Century
Samurai
San Ethnography
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
Sardis
The Sasanian Empire (224–651 A.D.)
Scenes of Everyday Life in Ancient Greece
Scholar-Officials of China
School of Paris
Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Art
The Seleucid Empire (323–64 B.C.)
Senufo Arts and Poro Initiation in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: An Influential Exhibition at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963
Seventeenth-Century European Watches
The Severan Dynasty (193–235 A.D.)
Sèvres Porcelain in the Nineteenth Century
Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan
The Shah Jahan Album
The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Shaker Furniture
Shakespeare and Art, 1709–1922
Shakespeare Portrayed
Shang and Zhou Dynasties: The Bronze Age of China
Shinto
Shoes in The Costume Institute
Shōguns and Art
Shunga Dynasty (ca. Second–First Century B.C.)
Sienese Painting
Silk Textiles from Safavid Iran, 1501–1722
Silks from Ottoman Turkey
Silver in Ancient Egypt
Sixteenth-Century Painting in Emilia-Romagna
Sixteenth-Century Painting in Lombardy
Sixteenth-Century Painting in Venice and the Veneto
The Solomon Islands
South Asian Art and Culture
Southern Italian Vase Painting
Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279)
The Spanish Guitar
Spiritual Power in the Arts of the Toba Batak
Stained (Luster-Painted) Glass from Islamic Lands
Stained Glass in Medieval Europe
Still-Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1600–1800
Still-Life Painting in Southern Europe, 1600–1800
Stone Masks and Figurines from Northwest Argentina (500 BCE–650 CE)
The Structure of Photographic Metaphors
Students of Benjamin West (1738–1820)
Surrealism
Symbolism
The Symposium in Ancient Greece
Tahiti
Takht-i Sulaiman and Tilework in the Ilkhanid Period
Talavera de Puebla
Tanagra Figurines
Tang Dynasty (618–907)
The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece
Techniques of Decoration on Arms and Armor
Telling Time in Ancient Egypt
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan: Templo Mayor
Teotihuacan (ca. 100 BCE–800 CE)
Teotihuacan: Mural Painting
Teotihuacan: Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon
Textile Production in Europe: Embroidery, 1600–1800
Textile Production in Europe: Lace, 1600–1800
Textile Production in Europe: Printed, 1600–1800
Textile Production in Europe: Silk, 1600–1800
Theater and Amphitheater in the Roman World
Theater in Ancient Greece
Theseus, Hero of Athens
Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director
Thomas Cole (1801–1848)
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916): Painting
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916): Photography, 1880s–90s
Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today Mural
Thomas Sully (1783–1872) and Queen Victoria
Tibetan Arms and Armor
Tibetan Buddhist Art
Tikal
Tikal: Sacred Architecture
Tikal: Stone Sculpture
Time of Day on Painted Athenian Vases
Tiraz: Inscribed Textiles from the Early Islamic Period
Titian (ca. 1485/90?–1576)
The Tomb of Wah
Trade and Commercial Activity in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Middle East
Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa
Trade between Arabia and the Empires of Rome and Asia
Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia
Trade Relations among European and African Nations
Trade Routes between Europe and Asia during Antiquity
Traditional Chinese Painting in the Twentieth Century
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Transformation of Landscape Painting in France
The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th Century)
Turkmen Jewelry
Turquoise in Ancient Egypt
Tutankhamun’s Funeral
Tutsi Basketry
Twentieth-Century Silhouette and Support
The Ubaid Period (5500–4000 B.C.)
Ubirr (ca. 40,000?–present)
Ugarit
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916)
Unfinished Works in European Art, ca. 1500–1900
Ur: The Royal Graves
Ur: The Ziggurat
Urartu
Uruk: The First City
Valdivia Figurines
Vegetal Patterns in Islamic Art
Velázquez (1599–1660)
Venetian Color and Florentine Design
Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797
Venice and the Islamic World: Commercial Exchange, Diplomacy, and Religious Difference
Venice in the Eighteenth Century
Venice’s Principal Muslim Trading Partners: The Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids
The Vibrant Role of Mingqi in Early Chinese Burials
The Vikings (780–1100)
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): The Drawings
The Viol
Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737)
Visual Culture of the Atlantic World
Vivienne Westwood (born 1941) and the Postmodern Legacy of Punk Style
Wadi Kubbaniya (ca. 17,000–15,000 B.C.)
Walker Evans (1903–1975)
Wang Hui (1632–1717)
Warfare in Ancient Greece
Watercolor Painting in Britain, 1750–1850
Ways of Recording African History
Weddings in the Italian Renaissance
West Asia: Ancient Legends, Modern Idioms
West Asia: Between Tradition and Modernity
West Asia: Postmodernism, the Diaspora, and Women Artists
William Blake (1757–1827)
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
Wisteria Dining Room, Paris
Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France
Women China Decorators
Women in Classical Greece
Women Leaders in African History, 17th–19th Century
Women Leaders in African History, 17th–19th Century
Women Leaders in African History: Ana Nzinga, Queen of Ndongo
Women Leaders in African History: Dona Beatriz, Kongo Prophet
Women Leaders in African History: Idia, First Queen Mother of Benin
Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style
Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Florence in the 1490s
Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: The First Illustrated Books
Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the 1490s
Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Venice in the Sixteenth Century
Wordplay in Twentieth-Century Prints
Work and Leisure: Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting in Korea
X-ray Style in Arnhem Land Rock Art
Yamato-e Painting
Yangban: The Cultural Life of the Joseon Literati
Yayoi Culture (ca. 300 B.C.–300 A.D.)
The Year One
Years Leading to the Iranian Revolution, 1960–79
Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
Zen Buddhism
No results available on the
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
.
Please adjust your selections and try again.
LOADING...