הוצאת Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With lesson plans, forty slides, two posters, and a CD-ROM, the set provides a full range of approaches and s...
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In the annals of fashion history, French couturier Paul Poiret (1879–1944) is known for liberating women from corsets and introducing pantaloons into their wardrobes. However, it is Poiret’s remarkable innovations in the cut and construction of clothing, made all the more remarkable ...
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The face in medieval sculpture was an exploration in human identity, marked not only by evolving nuances of style but also by the ongoing drama of European history. The 81 magnificent sculpted heads featured in this volume provide a sweeping view of the Middle Ages, from the waning days of the ...
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Accompanying an exhibition which moved from the Louvre to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in February 1998, this is a study of the work of the French Neo-classical sculptor, Augustin Pajou (1730-1809). His sculpture is discussed and illustrated in depth, and a detailed picture is provided ...
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This fully illustrated resource introduces K-12 teachers and their students to the rich cultural legacy of Roman art. It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Museum's Roman collection organ...
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Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
מאת Mr. Colin B. Bailey The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A ...
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The engraving of hardstones is a time-honored practice that goes back several millennia. The Greeks refined the art, and they introduced in about the fifth century b.c. what we now call cameos: precious and semiprecious stones carved in projecte... |
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Rembrandt/ Not Rembrandt: In The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Aspects of Connoisseurship (two volume set) (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Hubert von Sonnenburg
A two-volume catalogue of the museum's paintings by Rembrandt as well as pictures once thought to be by the master but now recognised as the efforts of his pupils, contemporary followers, and the occasional later imitator....
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Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, enhance, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the human body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices, from the bound feet of arist...
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Designed for creative use in the classroom, this dramatically boxed resource brings together representative masterworks of twentieth century art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and wide ranging ideas for their presentation to students....
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Designed for use in the classroom, the posters, CD-ROM slides, timeline, copies of original fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writings, and lesson plans in this boxed resource will help students explore the richness and diversity of Renaissance art.
The tote box provides illustrations and... |
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Duccio and the Origins of Western Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
מאת Keith Christiansen In 2004 the Metropolitan Museum acquired an extremely rare and beautiful Madonna and Child by the great painter Duccio di Buoninsegna. Duccio, who died in 1318, has long been recognized as the father of Sienese painting, and he fostered a new generation of ... |
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Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Elizabeth Hammer
The Chinese Garden Court is one of the most popular destinations for visitors to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This resource introduces educators to significant ideas about nature and Chinese culture that can be discovered in this extraordinary place. The boxed set includes a booklet containing ba...
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In this unusual glimpse into the Metropolitan Museum, members of curatorial and other key departments describe Philippe de Montebello’s impact on their activities during the thirty-one years of his directorship. The transformations that took p... |
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The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, ... |
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Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300-1500 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
מאת Barbara Drake Boehm This delightful book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precio... |
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The Cesnola Collection: Terracottas: CD-ROM (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Vassos Karageorghis
The Cesnola Collection of antiquities was assembled on Cyprus in the 1860s and 1870s by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, who sold it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1872 and subsequently served as the institution's first director. Numbering about 6000 objects today, the Collection documents the artistic...
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Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
מאת David Anfam This handsome book features 63 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, which was recently given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited beginning in September 2007. Long recognized for its preeminent Abstract Expressioni...
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Nomadic Art from the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections
מאת Emma C. Bunker
Four thousand years ago, a remarkable culture emerged in the Eastern Eurasian steppes north of the Great Wall of China, in what is now Inner Mongolia. Herding, hunting on horseback, and agriculture characterized the way of life for the pastoral nomads of this region, and the art they produced reflec...
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The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
מאת Alisa LaGamma This informative and beautiful volume sheds light on the enduring significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa, relating long-standing cultural practices to recent creative developments. Some of the finest and oldest preserved examples of West African t... |
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The Chinese often use the expression du hua, “to read a painting,” in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely “reads” thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic c... |
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Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
מאת Melanie Holcomb In the Middle Ages, artists explored and tested the medium of drawing, producing whimsical sketches, illustrated treatises, and finished drawings of extraordinary refinement. This fascinating volume is the first to examine and celebrate the achievements of medieva... |
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Splendors of Imperial China Treasures from the National Palace Musuem, Taipei; CD-ROM
מאת Elizabeth Hammer
This CD-ROM contains more than 475 masterpieces from the National Palace Museum, Taipei....
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Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical: A Resource for Educators (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Michael Norris
The lesson plans, slides, posters, texts, and other materials in this tote box provide many tools and approaches for creative use in the teaching of Greek art. Among the contents of this resource are a map of the ancient Greek world; a brief history of Athens from the sixth to the fourth century B.C...
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European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865
מאת Katharine Baetjer
This is a new edition of a reference book about the European paintings collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This new edition of the summary catalogue is in one volume and each picture is reproduced, with its description, on a two-page spread. Artists are listed by school, and the ...
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This notable catalogue—the first English-language publication on the subject—highlights the art of the early period (1392–1592) of Korea’s revolutionary Joseon dynasty. The Joseon rulers replaced the Buddhist establishment and re-created a Korean soci... |
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From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
מאת Mr. Keith Christiansen et al. In this fascinating book, Fra Carnevale—heretofore a mysterious, quasi-legendary figure—emerges as a well-defined and pivotal artist in Renaissance Florence. In presenting their case, the authors take the reader from the workshop of Filippo Lippi in Florence to Urbino, capital of Federic... |
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The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Ms. Elena Phipps
The arrival of the Spanish in South America in 1532 permanently transformed the Andean cultural landscape. Within a generation, societies that had developed over thousands of years, including the great Inca Empire, had been irrevocably altered. The arts from the Spanish colonial period—those that ...
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Idealized pairings have been an enduring concern of sculptors across the African continent. This universal theme of duality is now examined in a handsome book that presents African sculptural masterpieces created in wood, bronze, terracotta, and beadwork from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. ...
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The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
מאת Timothy B. Husband One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, du... |
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A collection of the most important drawings of the Florentine artist, Filippino Lippi (1457-1504). Trained by his equally famous father, Fra Filippo Lippi, and by Botticelli, he developed a rich array of drawing styles, both in pen and ink and metalpoint. This volume brings together 80 of the 150 ex...
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Ralph T. Coe has collected American Indian art for half a century, forming a renowned collection that represents all regions and periods of American Indian art. This attractive catalogue presents two hundred works from Coe's remarkable collection. Featured are exquisite examples of prehistoric stone...
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Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century: A Resource for Educators (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
מאת Lisa Gail Collins
This educational resource features twenty works by sixteen important African-American artists-including Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, and Faith Ringgold-all represented in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture, or multimedia...
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Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht (Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
מאת Dieter Arnold This volume documents twenty-six monumental tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty that were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition from 1906 to 1934 and 1984 to 1991. Focusing on the study and reconstruction of the architecture of the tombs, the book also publi...
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This fascinating book focuses on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent acquisition, The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, by Edouard Manet (1832–1883).
During the American Civil War, when Union forces blocked Confederate ports, the Confederacy countered by waging guerrilla warfare on Union mercha... |
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The Paths Dreams Take Japanese Art in the Collections of Mary Griggs Burke, CD-ROM
מאת Elizabeth Hammer
This CD-ROM provides a multifaceted introduction to the pleasures and fundamentals of Japanese art. Neolithic ceramics, sacred sculptures, brightly painted folding screens, boldly designed woodblock prints, and intricately embroidered robes are among the seventy-seven artworks explored through...
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Pondering the origins of the world and their own ancestry, African societies often sought to provide answers to these and other perplexing concepts in their oral traditions, poetry, and art. The Bamana people of Mali, for example, attributed the invention of agriculture and their understanding of t...
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Newly Available from Yale
This handsome book showcases the Metropolitan Museum’s superb collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets. First published in 1990 and revised... |
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Islamic glassmakers were not only brilliant technicians and innovators in their own right, but they also preserved many of the methods of Late Antique Roman craftsmen, passing them on centuries later to Venetian and other European masters. This lovely book is the first comprehensive study of t...
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The medieval Treasury of the Basel Minster miraculously survived earthquakes, wars, iconoclasm, and the Reformation, only to be dispersed in the early nineteenth century. More than half of its holdings are now in the Historisches Museum Basel, while the remainder are in museum collections all ...
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This catalogue presents more than 30 works by first-generation American Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart....
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A companion volume to the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition of Degas's vast private art collection in late 1997. It contains much additional information concerning the 5000 paintings, drawings and prints, including such details as provenance, selected references and current locations....
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