In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage
Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks this title offers an exquisite tour unique
in its lavish illustration scholarship extent and graceful packaging. As the first large
survey published in 30 years and the first large general survey of the Met's paintings
collection it 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. This impressive book 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 masterpieces 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 Velázquez Goya Rubens Rembrandt Brueghel Vermeer David Renoir Monet
Van Gogh Gauguin Cézanne 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. Iconic works in the Met include: Sargent's Madame X Velazquez
Juan de Pareja Brueghel The Harvesters Van Gogh Cypresses Rembrandt Aristotle and Bust of
Homer Pollock Autumn Rhythm Emanuel Leutz George Washington Crossing the Delaware El Greco
View of Toledo Caravaggio Musicians Vermeer Young Woman with Water Pitcher Monet Water
Lilies Picasso Seated Harlequin.
