13 Hidden Gems at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Inline
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art1/13Terracotta Krater, Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop, ca. 750–735 B.C.
This krater is perhaps the best example of the Geometric style of Greek vase painting, which dates back to the Archaic period. Pieces such as this were the precursors to the dichromatic figurative style more widely recognized now.
Location: Gallery 150
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art2/13Human-Headed Winged Bull and Winged Lion (Lamassu), ca. 883–859 B.C.
Lamassus were winged mythical creatures that served as protectorates in Assyrian culture. Significant yet often difficult for art aficionados to see today, this lamassu came from what is now modern-day Iraq.
Location: Gallery 401
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art3/13View From Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, Thomas Cole, 1836
One of the masterpieces of American landscape painting, Cole marries concepts of the sublime and the picturesque—both highly popular in his day and age.
Location: Gallery 759
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art4/13Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1851–53
The sumptuous depiction of fabric is just one of many reasons why this Neoclassic painting is considered to be one of Ingres’s greatest portraits.
Location: European Painting Galleries
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art5/13Cubiculum (Bedroom) From the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, ca. 50–40 B.C.
A bedroom from the Late Republic that was preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius and reinstalled at the Met. It exemplifies the second style of Roman painting, which traditionally consists of a composite of architectural elements.
Location: Gallery 165
