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Seen in the Mirror: Things from the Cartin Collection
An exciting, unexpected, and beautiful encounter with one collector’s deeply personal assemblage of works Since the 1980s, Mickey Cartin has assembled a remarkable collection of objects and art—Renaissance and modernist paintings, master prints, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and more. Exploring the theory behind collecting art and how Cartin’s approach to collecting diverges from common practices, this publication offers a unique perspective on an intimate practice. Unconcerned with hewing to specific categories, time periods, or media, Cartin’s collection—which includes the likes of Josef Albers, Sol Lewitt, and Forrest Bess—creates active combinations and disrupts homoge...
Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 48 2013
The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum’s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 48 includes essays on From Tarporley to Dolon: The Reattribution of the Early South Italian “New York Goose Vase,” The Coat of Arms in Fra Filippo Lippi’s Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Drawings of the Pantheon in the Metropolitan Museum’s Goldschmidt Scrapbook, Sin and Redemption in the Hours of François I (1539-40) by the Master of François de Rohan, Houdon’s Bather in a Drawing by Pierre Antoine Mongin, Corrado Giaquinto’s Medea Rejuvenating Aeson and other Modelli for the Palacio Real of Madrid, and Chinnery and Houqua: Questions of Attribution.
Pisanello
Pisanello (c.1394-1455) was the most celebrated artist of the early Italian Renaissance. A painter in fresco and on panel, a prolific and innovative draughtsman prized especially for minutely observed studies of animals and birds, he also became the first modern specialist of the portrait medal. Inspired equally by Arthurian romance, Gothic manuscript illuminations, classical antiquity and contemporary court fashions, his work provides a vivid record of the interests and ideals of his patrons, notably the Gonzaga, Este and Visconti rulers of northern Italian city states. To a modern viewer, Pisanello reveals an enchanted world, at once elegant, imaginative and intensely naturalistic. Yet wit...
Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50 2015
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.
The Image of the Individual
These essays develop and challenge the supposition that the portrait in the Renaissance is connected with the 'cult of personality' which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately.
Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 49 2014
The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum’s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. The essays in this volume include a new analysis of Greek marble sculptures in the museum’s collection, two articles on Tullio Lombardo’s Adam, a case-study of lessons learned from scientific analysis of the Peiter Coecke van Aelst tapestry Gluttony, and a discussion of The Expulsion from Paradise by Charles Joseph Natoire, which was once owned by Honoré de Balzac.
Like Life
Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected—such as glass, leather, and blood—Like Life presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Objects of Virtue
You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.
Leonardo Da Vinci
A new examination of Leonardo's career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy
The Renaissance Portrait
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.
