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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 Bearden The Block Lacquer Tray
135.95 USD
Gifts for the home inspired by The Met collection. Enliven your space with this colorful lacquer tray featuring Romare Bearden's (American, 1911-1988) exuberant tribute to Harlem. Though he was born in North Carolina, Bearden spent formative time in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem as a child, and in 1940, he established a studio in the same West 125th Street building as the artist Jacob Lawrence. Each of the six panels that make up The Block (1971) represent an aspect of local life, from the barbershop to the corner store. Click
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Lacquer Tray
135.95 USD
Our lacquer tray features sumptuous details from Clara Peeters's (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636) magnificent still life, A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612), in The Met collection. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, a genre that attracted women artists who were not allowed to study nude models. Click here to learn more about the artwork that inspired this item.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Momoyama Cranes and Flowers Lacquer Box
95.95 USD
Gifts for art lovers. This elegant composition of auspicious cranes among flowers, originally presented in a seasonal progression from spring to winter, is a suggestion of longevity. The decoration on our striking lacquer box comes from a lavish six-panel folding screen made in late 16th-century Japan during the Momoyama period (1573-1615), when images with exaggerated, high-relief details were popular. Vivid colors and strong ink outlines against a golden background are characteristic of Kano Motonobu (Japanese, 1476-1559), founder of the famous Kano school of painting, while the boldness is evocative of his grandson Kano Eitoku (Japanese, 1543-1590).
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unicorn in a Garden Water Bottle
45.95 USD
An art water bottle inspired by The Met collection. The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (1495-1505), an iconic French and South Netherlandish textile at The Met Cloisters, is the inspiration for our charming water bottle design. Printed on stainless steel, the beloved medieval masterwork features a mythical unicorn settled beneath a lush pomegranate tree, enveloped by a millefleurs backdrop of richly symbolic plants.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Chinese Dragon Rank Badge Lacquer Box
95.95 USD
Art-inspired gifts for the home. This eye-catching lacquer box nods to a Chinese rank badge made in the 18th-19th century during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Spectacularly embroidered rank badges were worn by government officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties; badges with birds indicated a civil official while animals such as the tiger were reserved for military officers, and each creature corresponded to a specific rank. In this example, a ferocious dragon with deer hooves hovers amid swirling clouds over a raging sea. Typically, the dragon was associated with the imperial family, with specific features such as the number of claws indicating the status of the wearer.
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 Chinese Dragon Rank Badge Apron
45.95 USD
Art-inspired gifts for the home. This eye-catching apron nods to a Chinese rank badge made in the 18th-19th century during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Spectacularly embroidered rank badges were worn by government officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties; badges with birds indicated a civil official while animals such as the tiger were reserved for military officers, and each creature corresponded to a specific rank. In this example, a ferocious dragon with deer hooves hovers amid swirling clouds over a raging sea. Typically, the dragon was associated with the imperial family, with specific features such as the number of claws indicating the status of the wearer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Monet Sunflowers Water Bottle
45.95 USD
An art water bottle inspired by The Met collection. This summer-perfect water bottle pays tribute to Claude Monet's (French, 1840-1926)Bouquet of Sunflowers(1881), a joyous still life in The Met collection. Monet exhibited the painting at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition to critical acclaim. It was likewise admired by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), who wrote in 1888: "Gauguin was telling me the other day-that he'd seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase, very fine. But-he likes mine better. I'm not of that opinion."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Logo Water Bottle - White/Red
45.95 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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Chinese Dragon Rank Badge Lacquer Tray
135.95 USD
Art-inspired gifts for the home. This eye-catching lacquer tray nods to a Chinese rank badge made in the 18th-19th century during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Spectacularly embroidered rank badges were worn by government officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties; badges with birds indicated a civil official while animals such as the tiger were reserved for military officers, and each creature corresponded to a specific rank. In this example, a ferocious dragon with deer hooves hovers amid swirling clouds over a raging sea. Typically, the dragon was associated with the imperial family, with specific features such as the number of claws indicating the status of the wearer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Diana Sculpture
502.95 USD
During the 1890s Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, born Ireland, 1848-1907) created 3 reduced variant editions of the 13-foot Diana sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum's statuette is one of the rare second types depicting the elegant figure posed on tiptoe on a sphere set on a two-tier base. Its matte patina, composed of gold, copper, and zinc, was applied by the electroplating process. The Museum's Diana sculpture is a reproduction of the original work on view in the Museum's American Wing.
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 Met Logo Water Bottle - Black/White
45.95 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.