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Insights29/10/2026

Collectible carpets: a geographical name does not tell the whole story

The Metropolitan Museum's so-called Czartoryski Carpet offers a lesson in naming. Its coats of arms were mistakenly associated with the Polish family;…

Insights29/10/2026

Antique tapestries: the border matters as much as the landscape

A Flemish verdure tapestry at the Metropolitan Museum, dated around 1600, brings animals and landscape together in wool. Verdure introduces a leafy…

Insights29/10/2026

Marble busts: a portrait also needs to be read in profile

In the portrait of Sabine Houdon, made in 1788 and held by the Metropolitan Museum, white marble meets a small child's face.…

Insights29/10/2026

Wood sculpture: reading colour together with carving

The Metropolitan Museum's Saint Mark is carved in linden wood, gilded and polychromed. The museum attributes it possibly to Johann Georg Libigo…

Insights29/10/2026

Maggiolini and Lombard marquetry: when a name becomes a question

Giuseppe Maggiolini's name often accompanies the story of a Lombard marquetry cabinet. The Getty notes how widely his work was imitated and…

Insights29/10/2026

Terracotta: relief, model and traces of making

In Clodion's relief Architecture, dated around 1780–1790 at the Metropolitan Museum, terracotta constructs a scene through projections and recesses. Light does more…

Insights29/10/2026

Antique clocks: the case tells a different story from the movement

A clock by James Tregent, dated around 1780 in the Metropolitan Museum catalogue, combines scagliola and gilt bronze. Viewing it only as…

Insights29/10/2026

A face in a few centimetres: reading an enamel miniature

The enamel portrait of a woman by a Swiss painter at the Metropolitan Museum measures only 44 millimetres high. Enamel concentrates a…

Insights29/10/2026

Micromosaics: pictures made of tiny tesserae deserve a slower look

In Gioacchino Barberi's table top of 1822 at the Metropolitan Museum, Aurora and Apollo's chariot follow a composition by Guido Reni. Micromosaic…

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