Courtesy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museums & GalleriesWashington Heights
Rich Man, Poor Man: Art, Class, and Commerce in a Late Medieval Town
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Description
What we now call the middle class was, in 16th-century England, known as the “middling sort.” The people who fell under that category were not nobles but maintained an interest in art and architecture on par with upper-class society. This exhibit explores the development of middle-class taste through textiles, prints, decorative arts and a set of large-scale domestic sculptures, commissioned by merchant Henry Hamlyn, that forms the centerpiece of this exhibit.
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- International Collections
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- Assistive Listening System
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- Wheelchair Accessible