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.
