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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780847846597
- Book Title
- Metropolitan Museum of Art : Masterpiece Paintings
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 13.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 2.2 in
- Genre
- Art, Travel
- Topic
- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Techniques / Painting, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, History / General
- Item Weight
- 140.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0847846598
ISBN-13
9780847846597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222003472
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metropolitan Museum of Art : Masterpiece Paintings
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Techniques / Painting, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, History / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Travel
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
140.7 Oz
Item Length
13.5 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-938042
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Succeeds magnificently in evoking a global art history...presented in a way that only a physical book could accommodate: eye-filling reproductions in a stylish package of more than five hundred pages, nicely bound...will delight the casual page flipper but it will also entrance art-book aficionados...consistently evokes illuminating connections and gives readers room to discover them" ~ Bookforum
Dewey Decimal
708.147/1
Synopsis
In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings , and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks , this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large survey published in 30 years, and the first large general survey of the Met's paintings collection it is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive book'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. Lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpieces, 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 the greatest European and North American masters. This unprecedented book includes an introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both a curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Vel zquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, C zanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, and Warhol. For those wishing to experience the Met's unparalleled collection or to study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world. Iconic works in the Met include: Sargent's Madame X, Velazquez Juan de Pareja, Brueghel The Harvesters, Van Gogh Cypresses; Rembrandt Aristotle and Bust of Homer; Pollock Autumn Rhythm; Emanuel Leutz George Washington Crossing the Delaware; El Greco View of Toledo; Caravaggio Musicians; Vermeer Young Woman with Water Pitcher; Monet Water Lilies; Picasso Seated Harlequin., In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings (Bookscan 40,000), and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks , this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. This volume is the first large survey published in 30 years, and is the first large general survey of the Met's paintings collection. This monumental volume celebrates 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.
LC Classification Number
N610
Text by
Galitz, Kathryn Calley
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