| Synopsis: |
"Metropolitan Museum Journal" represents a richly illustrated study of well-known works in the Museum's collections, including pieces not on permanent display, selections from important exhibitions that have visited the Museum, and related works in other collections. Volume 33 features an article rethinking early Cycladic sculpture, a reconstruction of an Egyptian relief of the Amarna Period, a catalogue of Egyptian duck flasks, a technical study of objects from Moche Peru, an investigation of Italian Renaissance birth trays, two essays about 16th-century French stained-glass window, a study of the porcelain decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, two articles inspired by a recent Tiepolo exhibition, a history of the Bowes family of England and their household furnishings, an analysis of an American autograph quilt, and a 19th-century American painting by Enoch Wood Perry. |