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The Metropolitan Museum of Art How to Read Portraits
37.9 USD
By Kathryn Calley Galitz Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects' and makers' politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso's and Marsden Hartley's abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term "portraiture" encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves. Kathryn Calley Galitz, an art historian specializing in European art, works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she has been both an educator and a curator of major international exhibitions.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Charles Albert Lopez: The Sprinter Sculpture - Mini
187.95 USD
Molded directly from the original, our sculpture reproduces a work by Charles Albert Lopez (American, b. Mexico, 1869-1906) now in the Museum's collection. The original sculpture by Lopez depicts a sprinter in a crouched position, his muscles tensed and face set in concentration, as he anticipates the start of a race. At the time the original sculpture was made, the crouching start had recently been introduced into track events. Lopez's The Sprinterwas exhibited at the St. Louis fair, and a cast of the work was selected by the United States Navy to be used on a track trophy.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sumatran Sunburst Rectangular Frame
52.95 USD
Our geometric lacquer frame recalls the celestial ornament on a beautiful late 19th-early 20th century Indonesian ceremonial mat, or lampit, in The Met collection. Crescent moons are suspended alongside birds in flight to suggest the timeless relationship between Indonesia's elite rulers and the universe's cosmic order. Designed for spiritual leaders who presided over important ritual gatherings, such refined mats were woven from finely split cane fibers and adorned with burnt patterns made with a heated stylus.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Charles Albert Lopez: The Sprinter Sculpture - Small
247.95 USD
Molded directly from the original, our sculpture reproduces a work by Charles Albert Lopez (American, b. Mexico, 1869-1906) now in the Museum's collection. The original sculpture by Lopez depicts a sprinter in a crouched position, his muscles tensed and face set in concentration, as he anticipates the start of a race. At the time the original sculpture was made, the crouching start had recently been introduced into track events. Lopez's The Sprinterwas exhibited at the St. Louis fair, and a cast of the work was selected by the United States Navy to be used on a track trophy.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art William Morris Botanical Print Napkin Set
67.95 USD
Our cotton napkin set features four whimsical motifs by William Morris (British, 1834-1896): Fruit (or Pomegranate) (ca. 1866), Jasmine (1872), Strawberry Thief (design registered 1883, printed 1917-23), and Blackthorn (1892). Morris frequently looked to the English countryside for inspiration; as the Arts and Crafts movement's leading figure, he believed that beauty, order, and imagination were the necessary components of a strong design.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn Apron
45.95 USD
Our striking apron features a detail from The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505), an iconic French and South Netherlandish textile belonging to the famous Unicorn Tapestries at The Met Cloisters. This beloved work depicts a unicorn resting in a garden enclosure beneath a pomegranate tree, enveloped by a millefleurs backdrop of richly symbolic plants.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Apron
45.95 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. This 100% cotton apron celebrates an ambitious arrangement painted by the remarkable Clara Peeters (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636). A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612), housed at The Met, showcases the artist's keen eye for detail-in the way of reflective dewdrops, little insect bites, and drooping petals evocative of transience and decay-and reveals the close connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting, both of which became popular during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, an especially attractive genre to women artists who weren't permitted to study nude models.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Harriet Goodhue Hosmer: Poets' Hands Sculpture
182.95 USD
This elegant sculpture reproduces an original bronze cast in The Met collection. In 1852, the sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American, 1830-1908) relocated from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Rome, Italy, where she became a prominent member of the Anglo-American expatriate community. In 1853, during her second winter in Rome, Hosmer developed a friendship with British poets Robert (1812-1889) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). Hosmer suggested making a cast of the poets' interlocked right hands and Mrs. Browning agreed, provided the artist do it herself, rather than delegate the project to her studio assistants. Mrs. Browning's delicate hand with a scalloped cuff is entwined in the slightly larger, firmer hand of her husband. Hosmer later noted that the hands appear just as they did when removed from the mold and, as a result, textural details are faithfully reproduced. This intimate piece is eloquent testimony to the profound love between the Brownings, who had eloped in Italy seven years earlier, as well as to the affection between the Brownings and Hosmer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vintage Met Logos Water Bottle
42.95 USD
Share your love of art wherever you go with our sturdy, stainless-steel water bottle featuring The Met's iconic logos. The Museum's current logotype is an original drawing that combines and connects serif and sans serif, classical and modern letterforms. It's fluid, lyrical, and distinctive, like a handwritten signature. Representing 5,000 years of worldwide culture, this bold and elegantly crafted mark looks both to the past and to the future.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn Mug
29.95 USD
Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505) stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. Admire the medieval masterpiece at home with our mug, featuring a detail from this lush French and South Netherlandish belonging to the celebrated Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
57.95 USD
A Met Museum catalogue is the perfect gift for art lovers. Edited by Alison Manges Nogueira Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other "faces" of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter's identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover. Alison Manges Nogueira is curator in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn Tea Towel
29.95 USD
Even among the rare treasures at The Met Cloisters, The Unicorn Rests in a Garden stands out as an exceptional highlight of the Museum's collection. Admire the medieval French and South Netherlandish masterpiece at home with our tea towel, featuring a reproduction of this whimsical feat of craftsmanship and botanical accuracy. The original is one of seven luxuriously woven hangings collectively known as the Unicorn Tapestries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Tea Towel
29.95 USD
Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Lend a touch of drama to your kitchen with our tea towel featuring an ambitious arrangement painted by the remarkable Clara Peeters (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636). A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612), housed at The Met, showcases the artist's keen eye for detail-in the way of reflective dewdrops, little insect bites, and drooping petals evocative of transience and decay-and reveals the close connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting, both of which became popular during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, an especially attractive genre to women artists who weren't permitted to study nude models.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Logo Water Bottle - White/Red
42.95 USD
The Met's sturdy logo water bottle makes a graphic statement in bold red typeface. Uptown, downtown, and all over town, The Met logo graces bags, tees, art supplies, and other items you can brandish around New York City-and the globe. Representing the renowned Museum, the mark lets anyone who loves art associate themselves instantly with 5,000 years of art from every corner of the world.