Metropolitan Museum Journal 1988 Volume 23

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. — 275 p.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and serves as a forum for the publication of original research. Its focus is chiefly on 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.
This Volume contains articles that range in subject from the time of the Egyptian king Tuthmosis III of the fifteenth century B.C. to the design of The Cloisters, which houses much of the Museum's medieval collection and is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 1988. Among the other articles are a discussion of twelve Roman relief mirrors depicting the Three Graces; a study of motifs in Persian inlaid metalwork; a survey of Gobelins tapestries illustrating scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses; and a complete catalogue of Dutch tobacco boxes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Museum's collection. Two of the articles are devoted to painting, one to a self-portrait of Salvator Rosa and the other to a series of genre works by Pietro Longhi.A Study of Objects and Early Egyptology
Christine LilyquistThe Three Graces on a Roman Relief Mirror
Elizabeth J. MillekerThe Iron Door Mountings from St.-Leonard-de-Noblat
Helmut NickelPen-case and Candlestick: Two Sources for the
Development of Persian Inlaid Metalwork
Linda KomaroffThe Consolations of Friendship: Salvator Rosa's Self-Portrait for Giovanni Battista Ricciardi
Wendy Wassyng RoworthAddenda to the Small-Scale Sculpture of Matthieu van Beveren of Antwerp
Christian TheuerkauffOvid's Metamorphoses: A Gobelins Tapestry Series
Edith A. StandenThe Elector of Brandenburg's Hunting Sword
Stuart W. PyhrrDutch Tobacco Boxes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue
Danielle O. Kisluk-GosheidePietro Longhi and Venetian Life
Rolf BagemihlA Neo-Renaissance Italian Majolica Dish
Jessie McNab"The Old World for the New": Developing the Design for The Cloisters
Mary Rebecca Leuchak