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Tag Archives: metropolitan museum of art
Arles Revisited
Fifty years ago, when my children were eight and ten, they, my mom and I drove from Oxford, England to Rome. We had a week to cover a thousand miles via Europe’s then old, double-lane, tree-lined highways. The trip was … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arles, art, art museums, cafe de la nuit, church of st trophime, cloisters, cloitre de le saint trophime, europe, european art, france, medieval architecture, medieval art, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, provence, rhone river, road trips, roman architecture, Saint Guilhem-le-Désert, saint trophime, travel, trophimus, van gogh, vincent van gogh, yale art gallery
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Family Reunion: The Red Boy (Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga) and his Family by Francisco Goya
Portraits of children occupy an important place in art history, and few are more beloved than Francisco Goya’s Red Boy, one of the Met’s iconic paintings. Manuel Osorio’s portrait, painted when he was three or four, is neither saccharine nor … Continue reading
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Tagged Altamira, art, art museums, Banco de España, count of altamira, fine art, francisco goya, goya, goya and the altamira family, Juan Maria Osorio, keith christiansen, manuel osorio, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, red boy, spanish art, Vicente Joaquin Osorio, xavier f salomon
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Radiant Light: The Ancestors of Christ at the Cloisters
To help The Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrate its seventy-fifth birthday, Canterbury Cathedral, founded in 597 CE, lent it six stained glass panels from its Ancestors of Christ Cycle, dating from 1178 CE. They will … Continue reading
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Tagged abbey of saint germain des pres, american art, ancestors of christ, art, art museums, canterbury cathedral, childebert, james t. hubbell, king childebert, lamech, medieval art, medieval stained glass windows, methuselah, metropolitan museum of art, mosaics, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, radiant light, riverside church, saint vincent, saint vincent of saragossa, stained glass, stained glass windows, the cloisters, union church in pocantico hills
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In 1970 or so my husband and I went to B. Altman, the venerable Fifth Avenue department store, to view remarkably inexpensive sculptures assembled from old farm implements designed by William Heise, a sculptor from Vermont. It was rather early on … Continue reading
Aladdin’s Cave
If you love jewelry—and many of us do—hurry to the Metropolitan Museum and visit Jewels by JAR. For a short hour you’ll escape the real and virtual miseries of the world and reside in a wonderland of colors, glitter, larger-than-life … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cartier, fabergé, jar, jewelry, jewels by jar, joel a rosenthal, lalique, metropolitan museum of art, new york city, nyc museums, paris, tiffany, walters art museum
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 