This journal represents an illustrated study of well-known works in the Metropolitan Museum's (New York) collections, including pieces not on permanent display, selections from important exhibitions that have visited the Museum, and related works in other collections. Reflecting the breadth and depth of the Museum's encyclopedic collections, the volume's range expands as the Museum grows. Volume 31 is particularly broad in its range - from an important study of four ancient mirrors in four different curatorial collections at the Museum to a discussion of works by Otto Dix owned by the Metropolitan. Of special interest are three articles based on papers given at the recent symposium of the works of Francisco Goya.

Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1996, Vol. 31

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This twelve-volume series for the general reader reproduces works of art representing the resources of all eighteen curatorial departments of the Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas

Send secret messages in an ancient and mysterious language. With this kit containing a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, plus 24 rubber stamps of Egyptian hieroglyphs, an ink pad, and a key to the hieroglyph alphabet, you can design artwork, do school projects, and even decode secret messages.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art FUN WITH HIEROGLYPHS by Catharine Roehrig

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Our Arms and Armor Book of Postcards has full-color postcards from one of the United States finest collections of medieval and Renaissance armor and weaponry. Chain mail the earliest European armor, dating to the Dark Ages was made of thousands of interlocking steel rings. By about 1400 the first full suits of plate armor, called Gothic armor, began to replace chain mail.

Arms & Armor

Nickel, Helmut

Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection

Miller, Joan Vita and Gary Marotta

History

1984 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART HARDCOVER

Mitsou: Forty / 40 Images by Balthus

Balthus (Preface by Rainer Maria Rilke

The photographs in this book span photography's first century, 1839-1939.

The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century : Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection

Maria Morris Hambourg

Jeff L. Rosenheim

Pierre Apraxine

Malcolm Daniel

Virgi

John Singleton Copley was the leading portraitist of the American colonial era. This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of Copley's work organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focuses on the paintings, miniatures and pastels which Copley produced before he moved to London in 1774. In four principal essays, a team of experts places Copley's work in historical and social context, and brings new critical methods to bear upon traditional aspects of the study of portraits and portraiture. Among the conclusions are that Copley's portraits helped to shape pre-Revolutionary culture, and that their content was market-driven in a relentlessly consumerist, anglophile society. Four shorter texts treat Copley's use of costumes in his portraits, his achievement as a miniaturist, his pastels, and the frames he used for his work. Catalogue entries on the colourplates detail the sitters' lives, decode the emblematic language that reflected status in colonial society, and reveal the way Copley contrived to enhance his subjects' status. The exhibition with which the book is timed to coincide opens in June 1995 in Boston and in September 1995 in New York, and travels subsequently to Houston and Milwaukee.

John Singleton Copley in America.

Rebora, Carrie, et al.

The Wrightsman Collection Volume III F.J.B. Watson Furniture, Gold Boxes, Carl C. Dauterman Porcelain Boxes, Silver

Watson, F.J.B. And Carl Christian Dauterman

Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America;: A centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971

Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy and John F. Scott

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