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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
Kathryn Calley Galitz
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Description for The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
Hardcover. This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1,100 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 348 x 53. Weight in Grams: 4028.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
4027g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847846597
SKU
V9780847846597
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Ref
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About Kathryn Calley Galitz
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. ... Read more
Reviews for The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
Succeeds magnificently in evoking a global art history...presented in a way that only a physical book could accommodate: eye-filling reproductions in a stylish package of more than five hundred pages, nicely bound...will delight the casual page flipper but it will also entrance art-book aficionados...consistently evokes illuminating connections and gives readers room to discover them
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