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Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology

Bayer, Andrea, Lawrence Becker, Federico Carò, Silvia A. Centeno, Ann Heywood, Lucretia Kargère, Dorothy Mahon, Adriana Rizzo, Xavier F. Salomon, Deborah Schorsch, Donna Strahan, and Mark T. Wypyski
2010
164 pages
175 illustrations
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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
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
ca. 1340–50
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Birch with paint and glass, French
Enthroned Virgin and Child
ca. 1130–1140
Abacus, Stone, European
Abacus
20th century
Enthroned Virgin and Child, Walnut with gesso, paint, tin leaf, traces of linen, and possible human remains, French
Enthroned Virgin and Child
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
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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———. 2010b. Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science and Technology. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.