Metropolitan Museum Journal 1987 Volume 22

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. — 186 p.The works in the collections of the Museum and on
topics related to them. Contributions, by members of the curatorial and conservation staffs and by other art historians and 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.
The subject discussed in Volume 22 range from a previously unpublished fragment by the Attic red-figure vase painter Euphronios to the identification of a French nineteenth-century printed cotton. A major study, based on the records of the German-born archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (I879-I948), is devoted to the architecture and wall paintings of Kuh-e Khwaja, Iran-a site of unique importance to the history of art in the ancient Near East. The Chinese tradition of flower painting and poetry is explored in the context of a handscroll by the thirteenth-century artist Ch'ien Hsuan. Other articles relate to Burgundian sculpture and to Italian-art of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The volume concludes with a group of studies prompted by works shown at the Metropolitan Museum in 1985-86 as part of the loan exhibition "Liechtenstein: The Princely Collections."
Kuh-e Khwaja, Iran, and Its Wall Paintings:
The Records of Ernst Herzfeld
TRUDY S. KAWAMICh'ien Hsiian's Pear Blossoms: The Tradition of Flower
Painting and Poetry from Sung to Yfian
ROBERT E. HARRIST, JR.Three Fifteenth-Century Sculptures from Poligny
WILLIAM H. FORSYTHA Drawing of Fame by the Cavaliere d'Arpino
LAWRENCE TURCICA Terracotta Relief of the Agony in the Garden
by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi
KATE McCLUERFive Scenes from a Romance: The Identification of a
Nineteenth-Century Printed Cotton
LOURDES M. FONT