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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 4 (February-March, 1972)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 30, no. 4 (February–March, 1972)

Various authors

1972

57 pages

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

"Introduction"
Thomas Hoving

"Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections"
Clare Vincent

"Three Fledgling Museums"
Susan Badder

"Medieval Monuments at The Cloisters As They Were and As They Are"

"An Eighteenth-Century Roman View: Panini's Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti"
Linda Boyer Gillies

Exhibitions
"Works by Sargent and Homer"
John K. Howat and Natalie Spassky

"Portrait of the Artist"
John Walsh, Jr.

"European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1969-1971"
Jacob Bean

"Untailored Garments"

"Behind the Great Wall"
Weston J. Naef

"A Suspicious Spinet"
Edwin M. Ripin

"A Child's World at the Metropolitan: The Junior Museum"
Linda Sipress

"Outstanding Recent Accessions"
Florens Deuchler, Everett Fahy, and Dietrich von Bothmer

Met Art in Publication

Portière des Renommées, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins French, Silk and wool (20-24 warps per inch), French, Paris — Portière des Renommées
late 17th century

The Triumph of Love over Time, Jean-Baptiste Lepaute French, Gilt bronze, marble, enamel, French, Paris — The Triumph of Love over Time
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1780–90

Saint-Guilhem Cloister, Limestone, French — Saint-Guilhem Cloister
French
late 12th–early 13th century

Lion, Fresco, mounted on canvas, Spanish — Lion
Spanish
after 1200

Dragon, Fresco, mounted on canvas, Spanish — Dragon
Spanish
after 1200

Virgin, Sandstone with original paint and gilding, German — Virgin
German
ca. 1250

Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti, Giovanni Paolo Panini Italian, Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, over graphite — Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti
ca. 1756–58

The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist, plate 16 from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto il Guernico, incisi in Rame, e presentati al singolar merito del Sig. Tommaso Jenkins pittore, ed accademico di S. Luca, in atto di respetto e d'amicizia dall'architetto e suo coaccademio: Gio. Battista Piranesi" (Collection of several drawings after Barbieri da Cento (known as Guercino) etched on copper and presented to Thomas Jenkins, painter and member of the Academy of St. Luke, out of respect and friendship from his fellow member, the architect Gio. Battista Piranesi)

Multiple artists/makers

1764

Modern Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini Italian, Oil on canvas — Modern Rome
1757

In the Generalife, John Singer Sargent American, Watercolor, wax crayon, and graphite on white wove paper, American — In the Generalife
1912

Inside the Bar, Winslow Homer American, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American — Inside the Bar
1883

Thomas Eakins, Samuel Aloysius Murray American, Bronze, American — Thomas Eakins
1907; cast 1923

Triton Sounding a Conch Shell, Annibale Carracci Italian, Charcoal or soft black chalk on blue-gray paper; traces of framing outlines in pen and black ink and black chalk — Triton Sounding a Conch Shell
ca. 1597–1602

Ensemble, a, c) wool<br/>b) cotton, Indigenous American (Hopi peoples) — Ensemble
Indigenous American (Hopi peoples)
20th century

Illustrations of China and Its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented

1870s

Rectangular Octave Virginal, Wood and various materials, probably German — Rectangular Octave Virginal
probably German
ca. 1600

Triangular Octave Spinet, Pasquino Querci Italian, Wood, various materials, Italian — Triangular Octave Spinet
1625

Claviorganum
, Lorenz Hauslaib German, Wood, bone, ebony, metal, pear, quill, lead, leather, parchment, German — Claviorganum
1598

Bronze statuette of Hermes, Bronze, Greek or Roman — Bronze statuette of Hermes
Greek or Roman
1st century BCE–1st century CE

Plaque with Scenes at Emmaus, Elephant ivory, Carolingian — Plaque with Scenes at Emmaus
Carolingian
ca. 850–900

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