Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 [Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985]. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 [Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985]. write by Philippe de Montebello. This book was released on 1985. Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 [Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985]. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985
Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 write by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1985. Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985
Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 write by Philippe De Montebello. This book was released on 1985. Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005
Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005 write by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005, is a successor to a volume published by the Museum in 1965 entitled Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1964. These two bibliographic volumes endeavor to list all the known books, pamphlets, and serial publications bearing the Museum's imprint, and issued by the institution during the first 135 years of its existence (through June 2005). The first volume was compiled by Albert TenEyck Gardner, at the time an Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and the present volume has been compiled from the Annual Reports issued by the Museum during the relevant years. Together the two volumes testify to the tremendous contributions made to knowledge by the curators and conservators of the Metropolitan and by the many other experts who have contributed to the Museum's exhibition catalogues. Various issues of the Bulletin emphasize the great sweep of the Museum's acquisitions during these years, and the exhibition catalogues--a number of them Alfred H. Barr Jr., Award or the George Wittenborn Award--testify to the continuity of the institution's dedicated program to enrich people's lives through knowledge of art. (This title was originally published in 2006.)
Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art write by David G. Alexander. This book was released on 2015-12-31. Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian military equipment into courtly works of art. This book reveals the diversity and artistic quality of one of the most important and encyclopedic collections of its kind in the West. The Metropolitan Museum's holdings span ten centuries and include representative pieces from almost every Islamic culture from Spain to the Caucasus. The collection includes rare early works, among them the oldest documented Islamic sword, and is rich in helmets and body armor, decorated with calligraphy and arabesques, that were worn in Iran and Anatolia in the late fifteenth century. Other masterpieces include a jeweled short sword (yatagan) with a blade of "watered" steel that comes from the court of Süleyman the Magnificent, a seventeenth-century gold-inlaid armor associated with Shah Jahan, and two gold-inlaid flintlock firearms belonging to the guard of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Presenting 126 objects, each handsomely photographed and richly documented with a detailed description and discussion of its technical, historical, and artistic importance, this overview of the Met's holdings is supplemented by an introductory essay on the formation of the collection, and appendixes on iconography and on Turkman-style armor.
