The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south Italian vase painting; a bronze hellenistic dwarf; identification of the origins of Kizil paintings in the Metropolitan Museum; The Story of the Mercury and Herse tapestries and Gian Battista Lodi da Cremona; collecting sixteenth-century tapestries in twentieth-century America, specifically examining the Blumenthals and Jacques Seligmann; and Vincenzo de' Rossi as an architect, considering a new drawing and a rediscovered project in the Pantheon in Rome.

About the Author
All Board members are on the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Katharine Baetjer is Curator, European Paintings. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Curator, American Paintings. Denise Patry Leidy is Curator, Asian Art. Marco Leona is David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Scientific Research. Dorothy Mahon is Conservator, Paintings Conservation. Joan R. Mertens is Curator, Greek and Roman Art. Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Luke Syson is Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.


Book Information
ISBN 9780226329505
Author Katharine Baetjer
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 1191g
Dimensions(mm) 28mm * 24mm * 2mm