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This guide, with color illustrations followed by concise descriptions, was updated in 1983 and 1994 as The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (edited by Kathleen Howard during Philippe de Montebello tenure), and under the same name in 2012 (edited by Harriet Whelchel, Margaret Aspinwall and Elisa Urbanelli during Thomas P. Campbell tenure).
The Met's Asian department holds a collection of Asian art, of more than 35,000 pieces, [24] that is arguably the most comprehensive in the US. The collection dates back almost to the founding of the museum: many of the philanthropists who made the earliest gifts to the museum included Asian art in their collections.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) The Kearsarge at Boulogne: 1864: 81.6 × 100 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) The Battle of the U.S.S. "Kearsarge" and the C.S.S. "Alabama" 1864: 134 × 127 cm: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Races at Longchamp: 1865? 43.9 × 84.5 cm: Art Institute of Chicago: Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers: 1865: ...
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
“Many of the pieces … all have long histories of exchanging ownership, whether originating from a private sale or a deal within a family estate collection, e.g. famous collections like the ...
Met Gala outfits are designed to stop traffic — red carpet traffic, that is. Each year, on the first Monday in May, a hand-picked selection of the world’s most famous gather at the ...
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum: 94.2 × 131.2 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1595: Musicians: New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art: 87.9 × 115.9 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1595: Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy: Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum: 93.9 × 129.5 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1596: Boy Bitten by a Lizard: London, National Gallery: 66 × 49 ...