Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology

Various authors

2010

164 pages

175 illustrations

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About the authors

Praise

Director's Foreword
Thomas P. Campbell

Acknowledgments

The Practice of Objects Conservation in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1870–1942)
Lawrence Becker and Deborah Schorsch

Twelfth-Century French Polychrome Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Materials and Techniques
Lucretia Kargère and Adriana Rizzo

Evidence for the Use of Azurite and Natural Ultramarine Pigments in Ancient Egypt
Ann Heywood

Technical Study of Three Allegorical Paintings by Paolo Veronese: "The Choice between Virtue and Vice, Wisdom and Strength," and "Mars and Venus United by Love"
Dorothy Mahon, Silvia A. Centeno, Mark T. Wypyski, Xavier F. Salomon, and Andrea Bayer

Compositional Study of Medieval Islamic Enameled Glass from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mark T. Wypyski

Piece-Molding Casting: A Chinese Tradition for Fourth- and Fifth-Century Bronze Buddha Images
Donna Strahan

Petrographic and Mineralogical Analysis of the Casting Core of a Chinese Bronze "Buddha Maitreya"
Federico Carò

Manuscript Guidelines

Met Art in Publication

Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros, Limestone, Cypriot — Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros
Cypriot
late 4th century BCE

Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Polion

ca. 420 BCE

Coffin of Harmose, Wood, gesso, paint, gold — Coffin of Harmose
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

Lintel of Amenemhat I and Deities, Limestone, paint — Lintel of Amenemhat I and Deities
ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut, Granite — Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

Statuette of Harpokrates, gilded silver — Statuette of Harpokrates
304–30 B.C.

Edward Robinson, John Singer Sargent American, Oil on canvas, American — Edward Robinson
John Singer Sargent
1903

Seated Harpokrates with the crown of Amun, named as "Harpokrates-the-great, the eldest, the first of Amun", Cupreous metal, precious metal inlay — Seated Harpokrates with the crown of Amun, named as "Harpokrates-the-great, the eldest, the first of Amun"
664–30 B.C.

Linen, from Wah's Mummy

ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Necklace of Wah, Silver, linen cord — Necklace of Wah
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah, Silver, electrum, glazed steatite, linen cord — Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Virgin and Child, Limestone, paint, gilt, glass, French — Virgin and Child
French
ca. 1340–50

Enthroned Virgin and Child, Birch with paint and glass, French — Enthroned Virgin and Child
French
ca. 1130–1140

Abacus, Stone, European — Abacus
European
20th century

Enthroned Virgin and Child, Walnut with gesso, paint, tin leaf, traces of linen, and possible human remains, French — Enthroned Virgin and Child
French
1150–1200

Virgin and Child in Majesty, Walnut with paint, tin relief on a lead white ground, and linen, French — Virgin and Child in Majesty
French
ca. 1175–1200

Coffin of Khnumnakht, Wood, paint — Coffin of Khnumnakht
ca. 1850–1750 B.C.

Painter's Palette Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep III, Ivory, pigment — Painter's Palette Inscribed with the Name of Amenhotep III
ca. 1390–1352 B.C.

Inner rectangular coffin of Hapiankhtifi, Coniferous wood (Taxus sp.), paint — Inner rectangular coffin of Hapiankhtifi
ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene, Leather (probably goat), paint — Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene
ca. 1550–1458 B.C.

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