Discoveries: New Research on the Collections of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum
This two-day symposium celebrates the opening of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. Internationally renowned scholars and curators present recent scholarship in themed sessions.
Recorded April 13–14, 2012
Part Six of Six
The Large Audience: Life-Size Stucco Figures of Royal Princes
Stefan Heidemann, Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut
Parsing the Painted Surface: An Examination of the Polychromy on Two Eleventh–Twelfth-Century Persian Stucco Figures
Jean-François de Lapérouse, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mother and Child: A Group of Ceramic Figurines from Iran and Syria
Melanie Gibson, University of London
The Domestic and the Illicit: Medieval Ceramic House Models
Margaret Graves, Indiana University Bloomington
This symposium is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
