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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Metropolitan Museum of Art"”.
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Structure and history of Guastavino vaulting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
… structural masonry vaults for wings E and H of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Museum) between 1910 and 1912. In the early 1960s the Museum relocated the Egyptian and Near- and Far-Eastern galleries to these wings, which in combination with growing numbers of visitors doubled …
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… collections were created as repositories of art, technology, ethnographic curiosities and natural wonders. Collecting first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world …
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Robber Barons and Humbuggers: The Rise of Philanthropic Museums in Nineteenth-Century New York
<p>New York City's most recognizable museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the support of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle …
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Great Men, Heroic Deeds: The Influences of the Nine Heros During the Late Middle Age
… now located in The Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are a series of three late-fourteenth century French tapestries illustrating nine celebrated men recognized for their famous heroic deeds. The first tapestry is devoted to three ancient heroes: Hector, …
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Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
Through the thick affective analysis of a carved ivory horn now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this study traces the millennium-long development of several insidious geographies, a term I use to describe diverse assemblages of material, visual, textual, and intellectual culture entangled with a …
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Interpretation and visitors in two Islamic art exhibitions
… years there has been an increase is Islamic art exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Islamic art exhibition includes both reinstallations of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Often Islamic art exhibitions are equated with broader social and political contexts and …
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A minimal aesthetic: the relationships between fashion and art in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day
… a minimal aesthetic evident in a strand of fashion emerging in New York and Paris from 1964 onwards. It examines the way in which a minimal aesthetic has been applied to the practice of fashion design and retail architecture, specifically in a high-fashion context. The research …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
When the Astor Court / Ming Room was built at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980, it attracted visitors from all over the world. Replicating the Master of Nets Garden, added in UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997, it was constructed in China, and shipped and assembled here. This first …
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Adult education in the art museum: a content analysis of acoustical guides in American art museums
… describing, and analyzing the content components of selected transcripts of acoustical guides used in major American art museums to aid adult audiences in interpreting or enjoying the art on exhibit. The principal objectives of the research were to characterize the content of these recorded tours …
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State of the art: museum additions and their impact on occupant experience
… takes a critical look at the effects of art museum additions on occupants by addressing key questions: How does museum addition design affect visitors’ and museum employees’ perceptions and experiences of “front stage” areas such as art galleries compared to employees perceptions and …