Metropolitan Museum Of ArtNew York, NY, USA
Works of Art in Metropolitan Museum Of Art
A long-mysterious image succumbs to interpretation if seen through a different paradigm
Carrington’s Self-portrait (c.1937-8)
Why would a German pacifist like Anselm Kiefer use a Nazi salute as one of his signature gestures?
Anselm Kiefer’s Everyone Stands Under His Own Dome of Heaven (1970)
How Bonnard turned his creative process into a scene in modern Paris
Bonnard’s The Pushcart (c.1897)
Don't let the belief that Caravaggio was a Realist lead you to think each of his faces has a different identity.
Caravaggio’s Faces
Find out how the colloquial term for a female rider inspired an artist
Courbet’s Woman in a Riding Habit or The Amazon (1856)
See how Cranach represents himself as an evil man executing "his painting" of spiritual perfection.
Cranach’s Martryrdom of St. Barbara
Is Degas' Little Dancer just a dancer, a study in realism? Or is she......?
Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879-81)
See how the meaning behind this image changes our entire understanding of Degas' oeuvre
Degas’ Woman Drying Her Foot (1885-6)
Here, in a novel turn, the American artist turns a paintbrush into the oars of a scull
Eakins’ The Champion Single Sculls (1871)
Find out how Eakins' portrait of his father becomes one of himself
Eakins’ The Writing Master (1882)
Don't take a portrait at face value because art is never quite what it seems
Hans Memling’s Portrait of Tommaso di Folco Portinari (c. 1470)
This early painting by Manet has always troubled interpreters because it seems to make no apparent sense. Its explanation here, though, will help you understand paintings by Manet, Velazquez and other artists too.
Manet’s Mlle. V in the Costume of an Espada (1862)
See how both Manet and Chardin veil their meaning in the same way
Manet’s and Chardin’s Soap Bubbles (18th/19th Cent.)
Everyone knows that Boating is a masterpiece. Why is it so difficult to explain?
Manet’s Boating (1874)
This curious painting by Manet makes little sense until the viewer uses the idea that every painter paints himself
Manet’s Boy with a Sword (1861)
Find out how the viewer in this garden scene is really inside Manet's mind
Manet’s Monet Family in the Garden (1874)
A good example of how the "errors" in a painting are really the key to its meaning
Manet’s The Spanish Singer (1860)
Joseph, worth only a cameo appearance in the Bible, is a major star in visual art. Cast as a narcoleptic, he falls asleep in one image after another without any art historian, to my knowledge, pausing to ask: Why does he sleep so much?
Mantegna’s Adoration of the Shepherds (c.1450-51)
See how even in the fifteenth century the artist's craft and intellect were one and how, once again, forms matter
Memling’s Portrait of a Young Man (c.1475-80)
Discover yet another example of how Miró's composition is based on his own name
Miró‘s Potato (1928)
Is landscape portraiture? Monet clearly thinks so.
Monet’s Camille Monet in the Garden at Argenteuil (1876)
Underneath the architecture of Monet's cathedrals is a major surprise
Monet’s Rouen Cathedral (1892-4)
Peale's American portraits have more in common with great European art than is generally accepted.
Peale’s Portrait of George Washington (c.1780)
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