Relating to objects currently on view at The Met.
Unpack the peculiar ways the jester challenged the medieval social order
Technical examination of Jacques Louis David’s masterpiece reveals that the refinements seen in the artist’s preparatory drawings didn’t end when he began painting—rather, they continued through all stages of its execution.
In Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates (1787), a parable of principle on the eve of the French Revolution.
How painters in Edo-period Japan reinvigorated artistic traditions and idealized the past.
