The Pierpont Morgan Wing
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The Pierpont Morgan Wing
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Author : Joseph Breck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The Pierpont Morgan Wing written by Joseph Breck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Art objects categories.
Handbook Of The Pierpont Morgan Wing
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Author : Joseph Breck
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1925-07-08
Handbook Of The Pierpont Morgan Wing written by Joseph Breck and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925-07-08 with Art categories.
Written in 1925, this handbook discusses the objects exhibited in the galleries of the Pierpont Morgan Wing. Historic photographs of the galleries provide insight into the history of this part of the museum, and a series of general chapters discuss the development of the arts and periods represented in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection with a consideration of political, social, and economic contexts.
Handbook Of The Pierpont Morgan Wing
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Handbook Of The Pierpont Morgan Wing written by Metropolitan Museum of Art and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Wrightsman Galleries For French Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2010
The Wrightsman Galleries For French Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum Of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Decoration and ornament categories.
The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.
The Capitalist And The Critic
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Author : Charles Molesworth
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2016-03-01
The Capitalist And The Critic written by Charles Molesworth and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with History categories.
Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Met’s transformation—J. P. Morgan, America’s leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Met’s curator of painting. Their complicated, often contentious relationship embodies and illuminates the myriad tensions between commerce and art, philanthropists and professional staff, that a great museum must negotiate to define and fulfill its mission. In this masterful, multidisciplinary narrative, Charles Molesworth offers the first in-depth look at how Morgan and Fry helped to mold the cultural legacy of masterpieces of painting and the development of the “encyclopedic” museum. Structuring the book as a joint biography, Molesworth describes how Morgan used his vast wealth to bring European art to an American citizenry, while Fry brought high standards of art history from the world of connoisseurs to a general public. Their clashes over the purpose and functions of the Met, which ultimately led to Fry’s ouster, reveal the forces—personal and societal—that helped to shape the Metropolitan Museum and other major American cultural institutions during the twentieth century.
The Secular Spirit
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Secular Spirit written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries New Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1926
Catalog Of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with categories.
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
Rogues Gallery
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Author : Michael Gross
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2009-05-05
Rogues Gallery written by Michael Gross and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-05 with Art categories.
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this endlessly entertaining follow-up to his bestselling social history 740 Park, Gross pulls back the shades of secrecy that have long shrouded the upper class’s cultural and philanthropic ambitions and maneuvers. And he paints a revealing portrait of a previously hidden face of American wealth and power. The Metropolitan, Gross writes, “is a huge alchemical experiment, turning the worst of man’s attributes—extravagance, lust, gluttony, acquisitiveness, envy, avarice, greed, egotism, and pride—into the very best, transmuting deadly sins into priceless treasure.” The book covers the entire 138-year history of the Met, focusing on the museum’s most colorful characters. Opening with the lame-duck director Philippe de Montebello, the museum’s longest-serving leader who finally stepped down in 2008, Rogues’ Gallery then goes back to the very beginning, highlighting, among many others: the first director, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, an Italian-born epic phony, whose legacy is a trove of plundered ancient relics, some of which remain on display today; John Pierpont Morgan, the greatest capitalist and art collector of his day, who turned the museum from the plaything of a handful of rich amateurs into a professional operation dedicated, sort of, to the public good; John D. Rockefeller Jr., who never served the Met in any official capacity but who, during the Great Depression, proved the only man willing and rich enough to be its benefactor, which made him its behind-the-scenes puppeteer; the controversial Thomas Hoving, whose tenure as director during the sixties and seventies revolutionized museums around the world but left the Met in chaos; and Jane Engelhard and Annette de la Renta, a mother-daughter trustee tag team whose stories will astonish you (think Casablanca rewritten by Edith Wharton). With a supporting cast that includes artists, forgers, and looters, financial geniuses and scoundrels, museum officers (like its chairman Arthur Amory Houghton, head of Corning Glass, who once ripped apart a priceless and ancient Islamic book in order to sell it off piecemeal), trustees (like Jayne Wrightsman, the Hollywood party girl turned society grand dame), curators (like the aging Dietrich von Bothmer, a refugee from Nazi Germany with a Bronze Star for heroism whose greatest acquisitions turned out to be looted), and donors (like Irwin Untermyer, whose collecting obsession drove his wife and children to suicide), and with cameo appearances by everyone from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Diana Vreeland to Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten, Rogues’ Gallery is a rich, satisfying, alternately hilarious and horrifying look at America’s upper class, and what is perhaps its greatest creation.
Opening Doors
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Author : Lynn F. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2012
Opening Doors written by Lynn F. Jacobs and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
"A study of Netherlandish triptychs from the early fifteenth century through the early seventeenth century, covering works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Hieronymus Bosch, and Peter Paul Rubens. Explores how the triptych format structures and generates meaning"--Provided by publisher.
Medieval Tapestries In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1993
Medieval Tapestries In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Tapestry categories.
A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.