Author: Charles B. Wrightsman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990128
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Volume Five: This catalogue of a private collection includes works by such artists as Vermeer, Rubens, Renoir, La Tour, the Tiepolos, El Greco, Canaletto, and Van Dyck. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393666
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.
Author: F. J. B. Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Author: F. J. B. Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Author: Everett Fahy
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Languages : en
Pages : 455
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Author: Frank John Bagolt Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Author: Everett Fahy
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN: 9780810964785
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Jayne Wrightsman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588391442
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman's private collection. These notable works were collected over the past four decades, many of them with the Museum in mind; some were purchased by the Museum through the Wrightsman Fund. Highlights of the book include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck, Georges de La Tour, Jacques-Louis David, and Caspar David Friedrich as well as numerous paintings by the eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Guardi, and the Tiepolos, father and son, plus a dozen remarkable portrait drawings by Ingres. Each work is reproduced in color and is accompanied by a short essay.
Author: Christine Coulson
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590510631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” —Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows us the Met that the public doesn't see. Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts. A surreal love letter to this private side of the Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humor, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
