Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

A catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition in a decade of the work of Giambattista Tiepolo, the most brilliant artist of eighteenth-century Venice.

Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV>Brightly hued, highly finished, and relatively large in scale, pastels in the 18th century were regarded as a type of painting and displayed like oils. The powdery, vibrant c...

How to Read Chinese Paintings - With Flaps

<DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Chinese often use the expression <I>du hua</I>, &#8220;to read a painting,&#8221; in connection with their stu...

Prague, Crown of Bohemia

This beautiful book celebrates the remarkable flowering of art in Prague during the reigns of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his two sons, Wenceslas IV and Sigismund. When crow...

Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1996, Vol. 31

Issued annually, this series publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections. Contributions, by members of the Museum staff and by other art historians and specia...

Greek Art of the Aegean Islands: An Exhibition

Pages: 238, Edition: 1St Edition, Paperback, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum : Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [New]

<B>An Â?intriguingÂ? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (<I>Entertainment Weekly</I>)</B><BR><BR> Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning wr...

Museum : Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [Used]

<B>An Â?intriguingÂ? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (<I>Entertainment Weekly</I>)</B><BR><BR> Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning wr...

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV>During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. <I>Rooms with a View</I>...

Egyptian Stone Vessels Khian through Tuthmosis IV

A catalogue of stone vessels from royal tombs or with royal inscriptions for archaeologists of Egypt.

Tapestry in the Baroque: New Aspects of Production and Patronage (Metropolitan Museum...

<DIV>This is a follow-up volume to <I>Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor</I>, which was published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition that opened at the Met...

How to Read Greek Vases (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV>How is it possible today to gain&#160;insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries.&#160; This ge...

Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters

<DIV>This important volume offers a complete overview of the Metropolitan Museum&#8217;s collection of sculpture in various media from all parts of Italy, ranging in date from the...

Monet: Includes 24 Framable Images (Art Portfolios)

Titles in Barron's brand-new series of Art Portfolios each present 24 stunning reproductions of memorable works from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enligh...

Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV>This essential guide for educators focuses on the variety of art produced by the rich and complex cultures that flourished in what today is known as the Middle East during a ...

The Art of Renaissance Europe: A Resource for Educators

Designed for use in the classroom, the posters, CD-ROM slides, timeline, copies of original fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writings, and lesson plans in this boxed resource will ...

Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<div>The Renaissance master Raphael (1483&#8211;1520) painted his last major altarpiece about 1503 for a convent in Perugia. It was subsequently owned by Queen Christina of Sweden...

Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Idealized pairings have been an enduring concern of sculptors across the African continent. This universal theme of duality is now examined in a handsome book that presents African...

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1, 2010 (Metropol...

<DIV><DIV>This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and cur...

High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolit...

<DIV><DIV>This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 2...

An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo (Metropo...

<DIV><DIV>This handsome book presents highlights from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and Da...

Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale: The Villa of Plubius Fannius Synistor in Reality and ...

<DIV><DIV>When Mount Vesuvius erupted in a.d. 79, burying much of the region around the Bay of Naples in lava, one of the extraordinary Roman villas thereby preserved was that of ...

The Janice H. Levin Collection of French Art

The French Impressionist paintings collected by Janice H. Levin and her husband, Philip, graced the walls of their Fifth Avenue apartment until her death in 2001. Among them were v...

Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered (Metropolitan Museum of Ar...

<DIV>Eighteenth-century European court society was famous for its lavish banquets featuring elaborate settings and protocols designed to indicate the status of both host and guest...

The Unicorn Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unico...

Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV><DIV>From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been e...

The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan ...

A catalogue of 373 masterpieces of European paintings, medieval and Renaissance object d'art, sculpture, jewelry, furniture, carpets, clocks, gilt bronzes, and porcelains.

Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

<d103>02</d103> <div>Housing one of the finest and most comprehensive collections in the world, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a living encyclopedia of art. Cultures spanning t...

European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865

This is a new edition of a reference book about the European paintings collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This new edition of the summary catalogue is in one v...

The Genius of Andrea Mantegna (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

<DIV><DIV>Few artists have managed to imprint their personality so indelibly on posterity as Andrea Mantegna (c. 1430-1506). Before he reached the age of twenty, Mantegna was alre...