#Met Museum

[divesslow]

18th century daggers from India and Turkey

[soupandcats]

Unicorn rests in a garden in collage!!! I saw the tapestry irl a couple weeks ago and I was obsessed w it 🦄🌷

[theantonian]

Greek Gold diadem with Hercules knot (250–150 BCE),

Gold, garnet, carnelian, sardonyx

3×9 1/8 in. (7.6 × 23.1 cm).

On loan to the Metropolitan Museum.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Green wool dress, ca. 1887, American.

Designed by Catherine Donovan.

Met Museum.

[taf-art]

Fleur de Lis (c. 1895-1900). Robert Reid.

[fashion-plates]

Met Costume Institute

Walking dress. British. ca. 1830

[marzipanandminutiae]

the Met Museum's weirdly fetishizing description of that one gorgeous blue velvet Victorian cape squats in my mind without paying rent

this is the cape:

Pretty! Made by Emile Pingat! Very Gothic! love it.

this is part of the description:

 The rich color of the royal blue velvet is evocative of the original wearer who at that point in time would have been seen as a precious jewel who required continual attention and assistance. That perceived helplessness is also reflected in the cape's lack of armholes, which would limit easy mobility.

...I. what.

I suspect it's blue because she liked blue and commissioned it that way (or selected that one ready-made for the color). and, my guy, there is clearly a big front opening through which one can reach for things. would you say that about a men's cape without armholes? they definitely existed, and plenty of women's capes DID have them. how does this No Armholes For Female Helplessness theory play out in view of those facts?

I also suspect this person wrote that part of the description one-handed

[i-am-aprl]

Hundreds took over the steps of the Met Museum where artists revealed a massive quilt stitching together 65 artworks in solidarity with Gaza.

The activists with Artists Against Apartheid @againstapartheid.art pledge to use their artistry to challenge the art world’s complicity in Israel’s war.

[thearchaicsmile]

Terracotta red figure lekythos from Attica depicting the goddess Athena carrying a spear and helmet and adorned with the aegis in the form of a Gorgon head, along with her signature glaux, 'little owl' hovering to her right. Attributed to the Brygos Painter, 490 - 480 BC.

🏛️: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[my18thcenturysource]

His Name Was Bélizaire

The names and histories of black people, especially enslaved people, are really hard to find in traditional documentation. The work made by Jeremy K. Simien when acquiring this painting and then have it restored and researched is incredible, since he got to not only have it attributed to the French artist Jacques Amans but finding the name of the formerly erased enslaved teenager in the painting: Bélizaire.

It was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this fall will be on view in Gallery 756 of the American Wing.

"Bélizaire and the Frey Children", ca. 1837, Jacques Aman (attributed). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You can read more about this painting here:

"An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met", Artnet, August 15 2023.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Important Painting Attributed to Jacques Amans, Met Museum, August 14 2023.

[romegreeceart]

PDF, 360 pages

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[artschoolglasses]

Silk Dress, 1805

From the Met Museum

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige and gold bridesmaid’s dress, 1896, American.

By A. F. Jammes.

Met Museum.

[nobrashfestivity]

Guerrilla Girls (Grup d'artistes) Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?, 1989 Graphic material, 27.3 x 71.1 cm

[theillusionofdelusion]

Imperial Russian court gown c.a. 1900 MET New York collection