He’s such an obscure figure today that he doesn’t even warrant a Wikipedia entry — but he must have been Somebody, to have been the subject of this outsized painting by Charles LeBrun, court painter to King Louis XIV. In 2014, at the time of its acquisition, Thomas P. Campbell, then-Director of the Metropolitan Museum of […]
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Adam After The Fall
After breaking into 100s of fragments, Adam is going back on display at the Met, and the story of the restoration is part of the exhibition. […]