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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),James Parker,Clare Le Corbeiller
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870991868
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,Jeffrey H. Munger
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9781588393661
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 : Charles B. Wrightsman,Francis John Bagott Watson,Everett Fahy
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870990120
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.),Philippe De Montebello
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870997105
Updated to include new acquisitions, attributions, and reevaluations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Amelia Peck,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 9780870998058
Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period room at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Supplementing the stunning photographs of the rooms are historical photographs and engravings and close-up shots of selected ornaments and pieces of furniture, enabling the reader to see details that are often inaccessible to Museum visitors.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300193206
The present volume, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005, is a successor to a volume published by the Museum in 1965 entitled Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1964. These two bibliographic volumes endeavor to list all the known books, pamphlets, and serial publications bearing the Museum's imprint, and issued by the institution during the first 135 years of its existence (through June 2005). The first volume was compiled by Albert TenEyck Gardner, at the time an Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and the present volume has been compiled from the Annual Reports issued by the Museum during the relevant years. Together the two volumes testify to the tremendous contributions made to knowledge by the curators and conservators of the Metropolitan and by the many other experts who have contributed to the Museum's exhibition catalogues. Various issues of the Bulletin emphasize the great sweep of the Museum's acquisitions during these years, and the exhibition catalogues--a number of them Alfred H. Barr Jr., Award or the George Wittenborn Award--testify to the continuity of the institution's dedicated program to enrich people's lives through knowledge of art. (This title was originally published in 2006.)
Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Crown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780767924894
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper class’s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And he paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power. The Metropolitan, Gross writes, “is a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of man’s attributes—extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and pride—into the very best, transmuting deadly sins into priceless treasure.” The book covers the entire 138-year history of the Met, focusing on the museum’s most colorful characters. Opening with the lame-duck director Philippe de Montebello, the museum’s longest-serving leader who finally stepped down in 2008, Rogues’ Gallery then goes back to the very beginning, highlighting, among many others: the first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-born epic phony, whose legacy is a trove of plundered ancient relics, some of which remain on display today; John Pierpont Morgan, the greatest capitalist and art collector of his day, who turned the museum from the plaything of a handful of rich amateurs into a professional operation dedicated, sort of, to the public good; John D. Rockefeller Jr., who never served the Met in any official capacity but who, during the Great Depression, proved the only man willing and rich enough to be its benefactor, which made him its behind-the-scenes puppeteer; the controversial Thomas Hoving, whose tenure as director during the sixties and seventies revolutionized museums around the world but left the Met in chaos; and Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta, a mother-daughter trustee tag team whose stories will astonish you (think Casablanca rewritten by Edith Wharton). With a supporting cast that includes artists, forgers, and looters, financial geniuses and scoundrels, museum officers (like its chairman Arthur Amory Houghton, head of Corning Glass, who once ripped apart a priceless and ancient Islamic book in order to sell it off piecemeal), trustees (like Jayne Wrightsman, the Hollywood party girl turned society grand dame), curators (like the aging Dietrich von Bothmer, a refugee from Nazi Germany with a Bronze Star for heroism whose greatest acquisitions turned out to be looted), and donors (like Irwin Untermyer, whose collecting obsession drove his wife and children to suicide), and with cameo appearances by everyone from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland to Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten, Rogues’ Gallery is a rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at America’s upper class, and what is perhaps its greatest creation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:460445419
Author : Andrea Bayer,Laura D. Corey
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397096
Published to celebrate The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, Making The Met, 1870–2020 examines the institution’s evolution from an idea—that art can inspire anyone who has access to it—to one of the most beloved global collections in the world. Focusing on key transformational moments, this richly illustrated book provides insight into the visionary figures and events that led The Met in new directions. Among the many topics explored are the impact of momentous acquisitions, the central importance of education and accessibility, the collaboration that resulted from international excavations, the Museum’s role in preserving cultural heritage, and its interaction with contemporary art and artists. Complementing this fascinating history are more than two hundred works that changed the very way we look at art, as well as rarely seen archival and behind-the-scenes images. In the final chapter, Met Director Max Hollein offers a meditation on evolving approaches to collecting art from around the world, strategies for reaching new and diverse audiences, and the role of museums today.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X001905080
Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351576079
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:634123858
Author : Adrian Sassoon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-12
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 9780892361731
This volume documents the Getty Museum's important holdings of Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain. Entries are arranged in chronological order and include descriptions, commentary, and a complete bibliography and exhibition list. Every object is illustrated in color and all incised and painted marks are reproduced. The volume also includes an index of painters, gilders, and previous owners.
Author : Jayne Wrightsman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588391445
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 : Judith Gura
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781628925104
This compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day. The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that combines depth of content with ease of use. Including examples and analysis on 17th-century Louis XIV through 20th-century Late Modern and each style in between, this new edition is also updated with the latest trends of the 21st century, including computer design, sustainable design, and modern office design. New sidebars interspersed throughout the book offer glimpses into historic design styles from around the globe. Each style section ends with a summary of key characteristics, major designers, and iconic fabrics. This book is an indispensable tool for identifying the trends throughout the history of interior design.