Image title: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness Medium: Marble Date: ca. 1470 Source: The Met Collection “ When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ” — John F. Kennedy Written in Flesh: Tattooing as Sculpture in Read more…
Image title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt Medium: Oil on wood Date: ca. 1512–15 Source: The Met Collection “ He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world. ” — Marcus Aurelius Queer Chiaroscuro: Hidden Lives Illuminated in Renaissance Shadows Introduction: The Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ” — Mark Twain When Paper Ruled the World: The Secret Lives of Scroll Painters Across Asia Introduction: A World Unfolded Before the bound book Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ” — Charles Lindbergh Brushstrokes on Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ The wisest men follow their own direction. ” — Euripides “The Frame Is a Lie”: Meta-Artworks That Break Their Own Borders Introduction: Frame as Fiction The frame Read more…
Image title: Young Man Holding a Book Medium: Oil on wood Date: ca. 1480 Source: The Met Collection “ Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ” — Franklin D. Roosevelt The Geometry of Read more…
Image title: The Adoration of the Magi Medium: Distemper on canvas Date: 1472–74 Source: The Met Collection “ All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” — Pablo Picasso Postcards from the Apocalypse: Visual Artists React to Climate Crisis Read more…
Image title: Landscapes with poems Medium: Fifteen leaves from an album (1980.516.2a–c and 1981.4.1a–o) of eighteen leaves Date: 1688 Source: The Met Collection “ Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. ” — Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ To lead people walk behind them. ” — Laozi ‘Afterlives of Color’: The Global Trade Routes Behind Renaissance Pigments Introduction: Color as Currency In the Renaissance world, Read more…
Image title: Portrait of Napoleon I Medium: Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch, 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame Date: designed 1805, woven 1808–11 Source: The Met Collection “ This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to Read more…