In the presence of kings royal treasures from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Contributor:

Nickel, Helmut, curator, writer of added commentary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Kings and rulers in art--Exhibitions.

Kings and rulers in art.

Royal houses--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Royal houses.

Art and state--History--Exhibitions.

Art and state.

Portraits--Exhibitions.

Portraits.

Royal houses--Art collections.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 unnumbered pages, 32 plates) illustrations

Place of Publication:

[New York] The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1967]

Summary:

"'In the Presence of Kings' intends to bring to the eye aspects of royalty through works of art drawn almost entirely from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition probes kingship: royal power and impotence, gilded and crowned eponymous heroes, tastes and images, ceremonies and frivolities, imperial iconography, ermined propaganda. Far back in the span of time one beholds the image of the all-powerful Gudea, ruler of Lagash around 2150 B.C.; nearer our own day, the brittle charmes of a Fabergé Easter egg made for Czar Nicholas II ... Confronting these examples of royal art, whether an imposing portrait, a suit of armor, a golden reliquary pendant, or a kennel made for a queen's pet dog, one may readily be both awed and delighted"--Prefatory matter

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 19 - September 4, 1967

Text by Helmut Nickel

Exhibition title: In the presence of kings : royal treasures in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Other Format:

Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). In the presence of kings

OCLC:

895135548