Metropolitan Museum Journal 1999 Volume 34

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. — 163 p.The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its purpose is to publish original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent.
Contributions, by members of the Museum staff and other specialists, vary in length from monographic studies to brief notes. The wealth of the Museum's collections and the scope of these essays make the Journal essential reading for all scholars and amateurs of the fine arts.
In volume 34, two ancient works in the Museum's collection are given close scrutiny-a newly conserved Cypriot silver bowl and an amphora that was created as a Panathenaic festival athletics prize. A Song-dynasty fan painting in the Metropolitan prompts an investigation of the phenomenon of rebuses in Chinese painting. Comprising the European studies in volume 34 are a proposed interpretation of the allegory in a sixteenth-century French painting; an examination of the high quality of steel used by the armorers Filippo and Giovan Paolo Negroli and their Milanese contemporaries; and a description of how Charles Le
Brun revised a tapestry design to suit the tastes of the king of France. The volume closes with an updated cumulative index for the Journal.
KEVINJ. AVERY
Associate Curator, American Paintings and SculptureKATHARINE BAETJER
Curator, European PaintingsJAMES DAVID DRAPER
Henry R. Kravis Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative ArtsJULIE JONES
Curator in Charge, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the AmericasJOAN R. MERTENS
Curator, Greek and Roman Art