New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022, v.80, no. Rosenheim, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Aude Semat, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, Isabel Stünkel, Zhixin Jason Sun, Pierre Terjanian, Abraham Thomas, Thayer Tolles, Stephan Wolohojian. Pinson, David Pullins, Jessica Regan, Aaron Rio, Imani Roach, Jeff L. Orenstein, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Jenny Peruski, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen C. Miller, Iris Moon, Laura Filloy Nadal, Patricia M. Hyun, Shanay Jhaveri, Ronda Kasl, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Sarah Lepinski, Pengliang Lu, Virginia McBride, Constance McPhee, Asher E. Herdrich, Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Mellissa J. Garfinkel, John Guy, Navina Haidar, Medill Higgins Harvey, Stephanie L. Evans, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Amanda B. Carpenter, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Adam Eaker, Maryam Ekhtiar, Helen C. Bambach, Kelly Baum, Alexis Belis, Monika Bincsik, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T. Achi, Denise Allen, Niv Allon, Ian Alteveer, Carmen C. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.Ĭontributions by Andrea M. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms.Īmong these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia.
Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works.
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece.
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