More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, push further and deeper into true painting. This book examines sixty works and more than five decades in a series of chapters by Matisse scholars from the United States and Europe.

Matisse

Arts & Photography

Rebecca A. Rabinow

Painting

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

With the exhibition "Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era," The Metropolitan Museum of Art paid tribute to India, as the country celebrates its fiftieth year of indepdendence. The exhibition featured works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, the period during which Indian carpet weavers produced their most stunning works. Despite their breathtakingly delicate beauty, Indian carpets are little known even to carpet experts, so "Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era" and its accompanying catalogue are crucial additions to both the study of Indian art and carpet studies.     Indian Carpets are very difficult to study as a group since there are about five hundred surviving pieces, a large number of which are scattered in private collections around the world. Consequently, a long period of research was necessary to gather information on the extant pieces and to have an understanding of this impressive body of material. The exhibition and its catalogue constitute the first in-depth study of Indian carpets and will surely take their rightful place in the history of carpet studies.     The works in the exhibition represent the broad range of carpets produced during the most artistically creative and prolific period of the Mughal Empire. The discussion of carpets in the catalogue roughly follows a chronological development. The earliest works are from the period of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605), an active patron who is believed to have established the first imperial carpet workshops in India. These carpets combine the dynamism of Akbar's reign with traces of Persian design (due to the large number of Persian artists who immigrated to India at this time). The basic elements of Mughal design were established during this period; they can also be traced in later works. Akbar's son Jahangir (r. 1605-27) succeeded to the throne, and his relatively peaceful period of rule allowed further concentration on the arts. The Persian style continued to dominate court aesthetics during Jahangir's reign, but it became quite different from its Persian prototypes and acquired a distinctly Indian character. It was during the reign of Jahangir's son, Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) that the flower style in Indian art came into popular use. This aesthetic was characterized by naturalistic flowers , either arranged in rows or against a plain background. The flower style began to dominate not only carpet design but all aspects of Mughal art. [This book was originally published in 1997 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

Daniel S. Walker

History & Criticism

A handbook on the conservation of works of art in a museum environment.

Art and Autoradiography: Insights Into the Genesis of Paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Vermeer

Book by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Children

Burn, Barbara

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.

Architecture

Liechtenstein: The Princely Collections [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1985] Baumstark, Reinhold (intro)

Liechtenstein: The Princely Collections

Baumstark, Reinhold

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 26, 1988 to June 5, 1988, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, from Jul. 9, 1988, to Sept. 18, 1988. Includes bibliographical references.

Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage

Photography in Modern Era

Unknown, Author

The Scepter of Egypt presents the culture of ancient Egypt as it is reflected in the large and comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The account - written by the eminent Egyptologist and former Curator of Egyptian Art at the Museum, William C. Hayes - traces cultural development from prehistoric times through the end of the New Kingdom. The historical narrative is wholly derived from the objects in the Museum's collection, which are understood as testimonials of the life, tastes, and thought processes of the ancient Egyptians, "one of the most interesting and attractive people of the ancient world." The book provides the reader with both a detailed history of the art and culture of ancient Egypt and a guide through the collection of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian galleries. The present volume is devoted to Egyptian history from the period when parts of the country were dominated by Asiatic rulers (Hyksos), through the rise of the Eighteenth Dynasty, the time of Akhenaten, and the rule of the Ramesside kings to the end of the New Kingdom (c. 1080 B.C.) It covers roughly six hundred years of recorded time; it deals with more than ten thousand works of art and craftsmanship. Much of the material has never been published elsewhere. In addition to the objects in the collection, the book discusses the architecture, language and writing, religion, funerary beliefs and customs, dress, warfare, musical instruments, furniture, jewelry, and daily life of the ancient Egyptians. The history of the period comes alive in such personalities as Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amunhotpe III, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II. The many quotations from ancient records and inscriptions bring the reader close to ideas, events, and personalities of the time. The text is accompanied by 275 illustrations.

The Scepter of Egypt Vol.2: The Hyksos Period & the New Kingdom

William Christopher Hayes

18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

BEAN,Jacob and GRISWOLD, William

Contributors include Francoise Cachin, Anne Distel, Susan Alyson Stein, and Gary Tinterow. Definitive overview of Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), the great Neo-Impressionist artist. Includes an in-depth biographical discussion and an examination of his intense interest in light and in its effects on color, which led him to develop pointillism, the technique most closely associated with him. The reader's understanding of this innovation is enriched by a careful presentation of Seurat's theories of color and light.460p, 352 illustrations (244 in color).

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Robert L. Herbert

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