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- ISBN 9780847846597
- Weight: 4026g
- Dimensions: 246 x 345mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This impressive volume'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 master- pieces, 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, Velazquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, 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.
A scholar, author, and lecturer specializing in Euro- pean art, Kathryn Calley Galitz works at The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York, where she has been both an educator and a curator of major international exhibitions. Thomas P. Campbell is the director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
