metropolitan museum of art, new york: picture gallery, the masterpieces (part2)
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CHRISTUS, PetrusSt Eligius in His Workshop1449Oil on panelMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CHRISTUS, PetrusSt Eligius in His Workshop1449Oil on panelMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CHRISTUS, PetrusSt Eligius in His Workshop1449Oil on panelMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CHRISTUS, PetrusSt Eligius in His Workshop1449Oil on panelMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CHRISTUS, PetrusSt Eligius in His Workshop1449Oil on panel, 98 x 85 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
(Part 2)
MEMLING, HansThe Mystic Marriage of St Catherine1479-80Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansThe Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail)1479-80Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansThe Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail)1479-80Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansVirgin with the Child Reaching for his Toe1490sOil on oak panel, 24,1 x 17,8 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansVirgin with the Child Reaching for his Toe (detail)1490sOil on oak panel, 24,1 x 17,8 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van RijnAristotle with a Bust of Homer1653Oil on canvas, 144 x 137 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van RijnAristotle with a Bust of Homer (detail)1653Oil on canvasMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van RijnMan in Oriental Costume1632Oil on canvas, 153 x 111 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van RijnMan in Oriental Costume (detail)1632Oil on canvas, 153 x 111 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CRANACH, Lucas the ElderThe Judgment of Paris ca. 1528 Oil on beech, 101.9 x 71.1cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
CRANACH, Lucas the ElderThe Judgment of Paris (detail)ca. 1528 Oil on beech, 101.9 x 71.1cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
ROSSELLI, CosimoMadonna and Child with Angels1480-82Tempera, gold on panel, 85 x 58 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
ROSSELLI, CosimoMadonna and Child with Angels (detail)1480-82Tempera, gold on panel, 85 x 58 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansThe Annunciationc. 1489Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansThe Annunciation (detail)c. 1489Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MEMLING, HansThe Annunciation (detail)c. 1489Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
UCCELLO, PaoloPortrait of a Lady1450sOil on canvas, 39 x 26 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
UCCELLO, PaoloPortrait of a Lady (detail)1450sOil on canvas, 39 x 26 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta María Teresa1651-52Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta María Teresa (detail)1651-52Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta María Teresa (detail)1651-52Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the most comprehensive collection of art in the USA and one of the greatest in the world.
It was founded in 1870 and the present building in Central Park was opened in 1880. The museum is owned by the city, but is supported mainly by private
endowment, and the history of its foundation and growth illustrates the rapid rise of New York at the end of the 19th century as the financial and cultural capital of North America, and the growing economic supremacy of America over Europe.
Between 1880 and 1925, at a time when the major public collections in Europe were engaged in consolidation, relying largely on their purchase grants and
other state aid, the Metropolitan Museum was being built up out of the private fortunes of great businessmen, who collected rather for prestige than out of
connoisseurship, but collected only first-class works of art. It has also benefited from a number of endowed purchase grants, many of them
unconditional, which have enabled it to progress not only as a collection of outstanding works, but as a comprehensive and representative one.
The museum is rich in virtually every field of the fine and applied arts from all parts of the world and also houses one of the world's largest art libraries.
Much of the collection of medieval art is housed in a separate building called the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River. Opened in
1938, the Cloisters is a Medieval-style structure, largely made up of parts of Romanesque and Gothic buildings transported from Europe. Many of the
works it houses were collected by the American sculptor George Grey Barnard (1863-1938), who lived in France for much of his career.