Girls of the Met: Young Woman Peeling Apples

“Young Woman Peeling Apples” by Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1655, Dutch. On view in Gallery 964 at time of writing. Girls of the Met is a column that looks at how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is representing girls in their collections, using items that are...

Girls of the Met: Young Girl Bathing

“Young Girl Bathing” by Auguste Renoir, 1892. On view in Gallery 961 at time of writing. Girls of the Met is a column that looks at how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is representing girls in their collections, using items that are publicly on view, and...

Girls of the Met: Stele Girl

Marble stele of a little girl, ca. 450-440 BC, Greece. On view in Gallery 156 at time of writing. Girls of the Met is a column that looks at how the Metropolitan Museum of Art is representing girls in their collections, using items that are publicly on view, and how...

Degas: Removing the romance from ballet

If I were to ask you to think of a painting of a ballerina, I could almost bet money on the fact you would picture ‘Ballet at the Paris Opera’, ‘Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers’, or many of the other works by Degas. Degas’ paintings are...

Presentations of Girlhood and Womanhood in Ancient Minoan Frescoes

Generally, the theme of girlhood in ancient Greek art is… well…. somewhat non-existent. Save from the odd vase painting of Iphigenia (a young girl sacrificed to the gods by her father… Great!), the general view of femininity we are granted in...

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