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The List of artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide is a list of the artists indexed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum guide. The guide, with a foreword by the museum director Philippe de Montebello, was first produced in 1983 and the edition from 1994 has been digitized.
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.
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.
Image credits: Chesnot #7 Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 — April 8, 1973) Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist known as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). [ 1 ] The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte , who had an avid interest in music. [ 2 ]
At the time, the piece broke the record for the most expensive piece of art ever auctioned. Read: Breathtaking Sights Around the World You Can See for Free Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’
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 ...