Metropolitan Museum Journal 56

Metropolitan Museum Journal 56

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 56 include an investigation into the politics that governed dispersal of a pair of Sèvres elephant-head vases during the French Revolution, a consi...

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Corporate Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : New York, NY : University of Chicago Press ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021
Series:Metropolitan Museum Journal ; v. 56
Subjects:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Art objects
Indigenous art
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Summary:The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 56 include an investigation into the politics that governed dispersal of a pair of Sèvres elephant-head vases during the French Revolution, a consideration of imagery used in a rare seventeenth-century Ethiopian prayer book, and a critique of the Museum's early collecting of ancient art of the Americas. -- From Publisher
Physical Description:184 pages : illustrated ; 29 cm.
Publication Frequency:Annual
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780226805627 (paperback)
022680562X (paperback)

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