Author: John CaldwellPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1
Author: John CaldwellPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999141
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Volume One: This volume catalogues the distinguished and comprehensive collection of approximately 400 works of American sculpture by artists born before 1865. This publication includes an introduction on the history of the collection's formation, particularly in the context of the Museum's early years of acquisitions, and discusses the outstanding personalities involved. --Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Kathryn Calley GalitzPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0847846598
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Walter A. LiedtkePublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392732
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 1109
Book Description
Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born by 1815
Author: Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
American Paintings
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Paintings
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Masterpieces of American Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Margaretta M. SalingerPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994727
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One hundred masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
African-American Artists, 1929-1945
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300098774
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
This handsome book focuses on the work of African-American artists during the Depression and the war years, when government-sponsored programs led to a resurgence in artistic production throughout the United States.
Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Barbara BurnPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998498
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Each reproduction is accompanied by a text that includes pertinent information about the work.