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Photography

Bann Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300135909, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2011
288 pp., 28.6x23.8 cm, 63 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

One of the most prized categories of early photography was the reproduction of artworks, a role in which photographs largely replaced engravings in book imagery during the mid-nineteenth century. Photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other works...

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History of Art

How to Read Greek Vases

Mertens Joan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300155235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
112 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

How is it possible today to gain insight into the culture that flourished in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago? Works of art are eloquent intermediaries. This generously illustrated volume provides an introduction to the painted pottery that served...

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Fashion

100 Dresses The Costume Institute

Koda Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300166552, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 28 black&white illus., 153 colour illus.

What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminde...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Tutankhamun's Funeral

Winlock Herbert E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167351, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
72 pp., 30.2x24.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

In 1907, more than a decade before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists unearthed remains from the mummification and funeral of the pharaoh, who ruled ancient Egypt in the 14th century B. C. Now in the collection of The Metropolitan Mu...

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History of Art

Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Wolk-Simon Linda, Bambach Carmen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155242, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
192 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 50 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

This handsome book presents highlights from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and David Tobey. Ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th centuries, some 70 draw...

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Reference

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1

Bayer Andrea, Becker Lawrence, Caro Federico, Centeno Silvia A., Heywood Ann, Kargere Lucretia, Mahon Dorothy, Rizzo Adriana, Salomon Xavier F., Schorsch Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300151602, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores the impor...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124026, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009
324 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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History of Art

How to Read Chinese Paintings

Hearn Maxwell K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2008
184 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 175 colour illus.

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 encyclopaedic collection of The Metropo...

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