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: Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1891 Source: The Met Collection “ A rolling stone gathers no moss. ” — Publilius Syrus ‘Chisel Like a Woman’: Feminist Subversions in Stone from Egypt to Britain Introduction: Stone as a Gendered Medium Stone has Read more…
Image title: A Peasant Family Medium: Oil on copper Date: ca. 1640–48 Source: The Met Collection “ Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. ” — Man Ray When Skulls Were Fashion Statements: Memento Mori in 17th-Century Dutch Jewelry Introduction: Vanity, Mortality, and Sparkle In Read more…
Image title: Fish hacha Medium: Stone, shell, traces of plaster, pigment Date: 600–900 CE Source: The Met Collection “ Pitching is the art of instilling fear. ” — Sandy Koufax ‘Smell This Painting’: The Lost Scent Worlds of Classical Art Introduction: Unlocking the Forgotten Sense Visual art has Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ” — Fawn M. Brodie Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John Medium: Oil on canvas Date: ca. 1624–25 Source: The Met Collection “ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ” — Heywood Broun Ultraviolet Saints: What Hidden Layers in Medieval Paintings Reveal Introduction: Shedding New Light on Read more…
Image title: The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross Medium: Oil and gold on fir Date: ca. 1510 Source: The Met Collection “ The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. ” — Ovid Invisible Masters: The Hidden Hands Behind Renaissance Workshops Introduction: Read more…
Image title: Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano Medium: Bronze, partially silvered Date: ca. 1632 Source: The Met Collection “ Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ” — Seneca the Younger The Sculpted Mind: Neuroscience Meets Marble in Bernini’s Works Introduction: A Mind Carved in Read more…
Image title: Eagle relief Medium: Andesite or dacite, Maya blue, stucco, red pigment Date: 900–1200 CE Source: The Met Collection “ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Maya Blue and Other Sacred Colors Lost to Read more…