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How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Wolk-Simon Linda, Bambach Carmen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155242, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
192 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 50 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

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 David Tobey. Ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th centuries, some 70 draw...

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British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124026, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009
324 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the...

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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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How to Read Chinese Paintings

Hearn Maxwell K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2008
184 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 175 colour illus.

The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting", in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropo...

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Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

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...

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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835

Avery Kevin J., Conway Claire A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300093728, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2002
444 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 450 black&white illus., 126 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a collection of more than 1400 works in watercolour, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk and charcoal. This catalogue, the first volume in a series devoted to the...

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Paths Dreams Take

Hammer Elizabeth, Russo Teresa

ISBN: CD: 9780300086874, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2001
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This CD-ROM provides a multifaceted introduction to the pleasures and fundamentals of Japanese art. Neolithic ceramics, sacred sculptures, brightly painted folding screens, boldly designed woodblock prints, and intricately embroidered robes are among...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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