A Virtual Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection has over two million works consists of works of art from the ancient world to modern art. The MET’s extensive collection covers Egyptian, Greek, African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islāmic art. …

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Chronology – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“During this period, Italy—and in the fifteenth century, Florence above all—is the seat of an artistic, humanistic, technological, and scientific flowering known as the Renaissance. Founded primarily on the rediscovery of classical texts and artifacts, Renaissance culture looks to heroic ideals from antiquity and promotes the study of the liberal arts, centering largely upon the …

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Seated Statue of Hatshepsut | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no.96, pp. 171-173. Arnold, Dorothea 2005. “The Destruction of the Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahri.” In Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, edited by Catharine H. Roehrig. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 270, 272.

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New York metropolitan area – Wikipedia

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget utilizes two definitions of the area: the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the combined statistical area (CSA). The MSA definition is titled the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and includes a population of 20.3 million people by 2017 Census estimates, roughly 1 in 16 Americans and nearly 7 million more than …

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Bernd & Hilla Becher – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Studio Bernd & Hilla Becher and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. … New York, NY 10028; Phone: 212-535-7710; The Met Cloisters. 99 Margaret Corbin Drive; Fort Tryon Park; New York, NY 10040; Phone: 212-923-3700; About The Met; Mission and History; Collection …

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Investigators seize 27 ‘looted’ antiquities from Metropolitan Museum of Art

Investigators seize 27 ‘looted’ antiquities from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The more than twenty Italian pieces are worth around $10m, the six Egyptian items are valued at $3.2m .

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The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.) | Essay | The …

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. See on MetPublications. Pollitt, Jerome J. Art and Experience in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Additional Essays by Seán Hemingway. Hemingway, Seán. “Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition.” (April 2007 …

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Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his …

“Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 14, 1970–June 1, 1971. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department,” MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan, The Aiche Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.

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Thomas Cole – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Long known as “The Oxbow,” this work is a masterpiece of American landscape painting, laden with possible interpretations. In the midst of painting “The Course of Empire” (New-York Historical Society), Cole mentioned in a letter dated March 2, 1836, to his patron Luman Reed that he was executing a large version of this subject expressly for exhibition and sale.

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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York . Plan Your Visit. Dates. July 5, 2022 – March 26, 2023. The Met Fifth Avenue. 150–163, 165, and 172. Free with Museum admission. Plan Your Visit All exhibitions The Met Fifth Avenue. 1000 Fifth Avenue; New York, NY 10028; Phone: 212-535-7710;

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