#Metropolitan Museum of art

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Title: Crouching Figure of Atlas Artist: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481-1536) Date: unknown Genre: figure study; mythological art Period: High Renaissance (Cinquecento) Medium: Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or black chalk Dimensions: 20.6 cm (8.2 in) high x 13.4 cm (5.3 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[lotussgrl]

alexander mcqueen: savage beauty

[homerstroystory]

Looks vs. Loot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by The Antiquities Coalition (@/CombatLooting) on Twitter

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1: The #MetGala may be "fashion's biggest night," but tonight's event hides some dark truths at @/metmuseum...including a long history of looted antiquities. To spotlight some of the contested objects from the Met's collection, we are featuring #MetGala vs. Loot [THREAD]

2. First up: @/KimKardashian in @/Versace at the 2018 #MetGala posing next to the Golden Sarcophagus of Nedjemankh. The coffin was purchased by @/metmuseum in 2017 and repatriated in 2019 after this viral photo helped solve the case. (link)

3. Next, her sister @/KendallJenner in @/givenchy at the 2021 #MetGala as the 13th century wooden Temple Strut with Salabhinka, returned from @/metmuseum to the Government of Nepal in 2022, after it was determined to be looked from Itum Baha in Kathmandu. (link)

4. Another object from Nepal, @/rihanna in @/Margiel at the 2018 #MetGala as a 10th century Shiva in Himalayan Adobe with Ascetics. @/metmuseum was gifted the sculpture in 1995, but repatriated it to Nepal in 2022 along with the temple strut, after learning both were stolen.

5. Dakota Johnson in @/gucci at the 2022 #MetGala as a terracotta kylix (c. 470 bCE). This piece, valued at $1.5 million, was seized from the @/metmuseum in July 2022 after being linked to Italian antiquities trafficker Gianfranco Becchina. (link)

6. @/billieeilish in @/gucci at the 2022 #MetGala as the Fayum Mummy Portrait. Looted from Egypt and sold to @/metmuseum in 2013, it was seized in September '22 by @/ManhattanDA as part of a global investigation into an international trafficking ring. (link)

7. @/iamcardib in @/ThomeBrowne at the 2019 #MetGala as a painted linen fragment displaying a scene from the Book of Exodus, 'Exodus Painting" (250-450 CE), valued at over $1.6 million. The fragments were also part of the seizure by the @/ManhattanDA in September '22.

8. @/Beyonce in @/givenchy at the 2013 #MetGala as a 2,300-year-old vase that depicts the god Dionysus. The vase is linked to Giacomo Medici, an art dealer convicted of conspiracy to traffic antiquities in 2004, and was seized from the @/metmuseum in 2017. (link)

9. @/blakelively in @/Versace at the 2022 #MetGala as a bronze statuette of Jupiter. This object is among 27 antiquities that were returned to Italy and Egypt in 2022 after investigators seized them from the @/metmuseum. (link)

[empirearchives]

French Shoes

1800-1810, Napoleonic era

(The Met)

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[antronaut]

Georges Seurat - Monkey (1884)

[resplendentoutfit]

The Bias Cut: A Revolution in the Fashion World of the 1930s

The curvaceous silhouettes of the 1930s became known for eccentuating the female form, as apposed to the loose styles of the 1920s which obscured it. Called the "bias cut", it was a departure from the traditional cut that followed the straight line of the weave. Instead, the fabric was cut at a 45 degree angle against the weave.

Madeleine Vionnet began using this technique in the late 1920s, and it became the silhouette that would define women's fashions in the 1930s as well.

Evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet for Vogue magazine, photograph by Edward Steichen, 1930 • © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Left: Slinky hammered silk evening dress inspired by Vionnet

Right: Madeleine Vionnet design

Evening ensemble • Design House Jessie Franklin • American c. 1930 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

[didoofcarthage]

Julius Caesar by Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci 

Italian (from Florence), c. 1512-1514

marble

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[dreamconsumer]

Apollo by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio.

[semioticapocalypse]

Elliott Erwitt. Archer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1949

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[lionofchaeronea]

Umbrella Pines in the Villa Borghese, Rome, William James Müller, 1839

[joytri]

the fact that zendaya had two looks for this year's met gala is so iconic.

[lotussgrl]

jean paul gaultier spring 2007 couture

[fox-teeth]

Went to The Met's Egyptian wing to draw jackals, for my agonies.

9B pure graphite pencil on sketchbook.

[silvianap]

Ladies & Gents,

HER MAJESTY GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE AT THE MET GALA 2024 👑

📌 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY)

📆 May 06, 2024

(-> twitter thread)