![]() New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022, v.80, no. Rosenheim, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Aude Semat, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, Isabel Stünkel, Zhixin Jason Sun, Pierre Terjanian, Abraham Thomas, Thayer Tolles, Stephan Wolohojian. Pinson, David Pullins, Jessica Regan, Aaron Rio, Imani Roach, Jeff L. Orenstein, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Jenny Peruski, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen C. Miller, Iris Moon, Laura Filloy Nadal, Patricia M. Hyun, Shanay Jhaveri, Ronda Kasl, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Sarah Lepinski, Pengliang Lu, Virginia McBride, Constance McPhee, Asher E. Herdrich, Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Mellissa J. Garfinkel, John Guy, Navina Haidar, Medill Higgins Harvey, Stephanie L. Evans, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Amanda B. Carpenter, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Adam Eaker, Maryam Ekhtiar, Helen C. Bambach, Kelly Baum, Alexis Belis, Monika Bincsik, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T. Achi, Denise Allen, Niv Allon, Ian Alteveer, Carmen C. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.Ĭontributions by Andrea M. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. 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 and the greatest European and North American masters. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. 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. This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world.
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