Happy Monday all!! I know most of you don't like Mondays, so I am this bog today in hopes of beautifying your day!
Usually, I display a series of art works by various artists. Today, I thought I would change it up and take you on a tour of my favorite museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums.
It is located on the edge of Central Park on Fifth Avenue. (lower right in picture below)
The museum uses every square inch of space. The following picture is a floor plan guide to collections on the first floor!...There are many more floors to explore!!!
There are even exhibits on the rooftop:
You can find something for everyone! Couture to knights in shining armor:
ca. 1778 Casaquin over dress (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City,
Ball gown
Design House: House of Paquin (French, 1891–1956)
Designer:
Mme. Jeanne Paquin (French, 1869–1936)
Date:
1895
Culture:
French
Medium:
silk
Dimensions:
Length at CB (a): 15 in. (38.1 cm)
Length at CB (b): 47 1/2 in. (120.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of
Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967
Accession Number:
2009.300.2115a, b
Not on view
Evening dress
Designer: Simonetta (Italian, born 1922)
Date:
1950s
Culture:
Italian
Medium:
silk
Dimensions:
[no dimensions available]
Credit Line:
Gift of Shirley S. Sidnam, 1973
Accession Number:
1973.302.2
Not on view
“Charles James: Beyond Fashion” celebrates the work of Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906-1978) with a look at some of his most iconic pieces.
Dress
The Arms and Armour gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medieval Gates
Design House:
House of Givenchy (French, founded 1952)
Designer:
Hubert de Givenchy (French, born Beauvais, 1927)
Date:
1980–97
Culture:
French
Medium:
leather
Dimensions:
L. at center back 24 ½ in. (62.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Randolph Hearst, 1997
Accession Number:
1997.486.11
Not on view
Vivienne Westwood (British, born 1941). Ensemble, 1977–79. Desinger: Malcolm McLaren (British, 1946–2010). Birtish. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Simon Doonan, 1986 (1986.244.1a–e)
The Arms and Armour gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The “Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department”
exhibition surveys the career of Dr. Bashford Dean (1867–1928), the Arms
and Armor Department’s founding curator.
The MET has rooms filled with rooms! China, Pottery, Football exhibits! Egyptian Tombs (you may be able to enter)! There is literally days and days of something for everybody!!
I can go on for pages. We haven't even covered the painters and sculptors!! But one last place I must tease you with is The Cloisters.
The Cloisters is a museum located in Fort Tryon Park in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is a branch of the Metropolitan, showcasing medieval art in a French monastery overlooking the Hudson.
The site incorporates parts from five European abbeys
which were disassembled and shipped to New York City, where, between
1934 and 1939, they were reconstructed and integrated together with new
buildings in the medieval style designed by Charles Collens.
The area around the buildings was landscaped with gardens planted
according to horticultural information obtained from medieval
manuscripts and artifacts, and the structure includes multiple
medieval-style cloistered herb gardens.
I hope you have enjoyed the tour! Come back next week. Perhaps we will visit the Guggenheim.
Please visit again
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