I’ve been very lucky this semester while working on my thesis. I am currently enrolled in an art history seminar that is taught at the Metropolitain Museum of Art by a curator, and she has helped to arrange access to the curatorial file for the self-portrait by Rose Ducreux and […]
I was chosen to continue to work on the websites over the course of the summer as one of the post-production interns. During that time, I did research on Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, a very talented eighteenth-century French painter whose self-portrait is in the center of the Tessé Room. Mademoiselle Ducreux was […]
At the beginning of the semester, our group defined our focus statement as such: We will create a website using css and html on a wordpress platform to make the Tessé room accessible to all visitors to the Met. We will do this by using transparent language, showing video and […]
This past weekend, our group reserved rooms on campus from 10 – 5 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and spent time working on our website together and getting it into a form that we are satisfied with. While we still have some text edits to do, we have finally reached […]
We will create a website using css and html on a wordpress platform to make the Tessé room accessible to all visitors to the Met. We will do this by using transparent language, showing video and annotating images in order to elucidate function and usage of materials in 18th century […]
I am going to serve as the web developer for the Materials and their Makers group. My role is to write and edit the code our website, while striving for a user friendly experience and anticipating the needs of our user. I will be working closely with the web designer in […]
I hope that my project for this class, in showing the technological and economic developments of the Enlightenment through the materials, their makers, and their use of space, will give visitors a way to insert themselves into the world of the Enlightenment. I believe that by showing them the advancements […]
I’m interested in the representation and use of space in the Tessé Room, and want to show visitors how the room served as a background for new luxury consumer goods, and how the movement of those luxury goods, with the aid of servants, allowed for the room to serve many […]
