Metropolitan Museum Journal 2001 Volume 36

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. — 256 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.
Volume 36 opens with a study of a blackfigured amphora inscribed with the earliest preserved signature of the sixth-century B.C. Greek potter Andokides. There follow examinations of the polychromy on a Cypriot sarcophagus, three small probably Hellenistic glass bottles and their use, and a Roman sarcophagus. The Metropolitan's acquisition and conservation of a linen and silk caftan and leggings from the eighth- to tenth-century North Caucasus prompted detailed technical and historical studies. Articles identify the maker's mark on a fifteenth-century steel helmet, the original recipient of a Luca Signorelli Madonna and Child, and the artist and subject of a watercolor of Weehawken, New Jersey. Also featured are two large related groups of sixteenth-century architectural drawings, which are presented together for the first time; Qing dynasty swords; and a Luluwa maternity figure, discussed in its aesthetic, historical, and sociopolitical context.
Cover illustration: Luca Signorelli (Italian, ca. 1450-1523). Madonna and Child, ca. 1505-7.
Oil and gold on wood, 51.4 x 47.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.13)Foreword
Philippe de MontebelloColorplates
Andokides and a Curious Black-Figured Amphora
Mary B. MoorePolychromy on the Amathus Sarcophagus, a "Rare Gem of Art"
Elizabeth A. HendrixThe Pendant Possibilities of Core-Formed Glass Bottles
C. S. LightfootA Roman Sarcophagus and Its Patron
Jean SorabellaA Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth to Tenth Century: Introduction
Prudence O. HarperA Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth
to Tenth Century: A Conservator's Report
Nobuko KajitaniA Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth
to Tenth Century: A Genealogical Study
Elfriede R. KnauerArmor Made in Basel: A Fifteenth-Century Sallet Attributed to Hans Blarer
the Younger
Pierre TerjanianSignorelli's Madonna and Child: A Gift to His Daughter
Tom HenryThe Goldschmidt and Scholz Scrapbooks in The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
A Study of Renaissance Architectural Drawings
Emilie D'OrgeixSome Notable Sabers of the Qing Dynasty at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philip M. W. TomWeehawken from Turtle Grove: A Forgotten "Knickerbocker" Watercolor by
William J. Bennett
Kevin J. AveryA Figure for Cibola: Art, Politics, and Aesthetics among the Luluwa People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Constantine Petridis