The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Introduction by Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum

General Information

Museum Floor Plans

The American Wing
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Arms and Armor
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Asian Art
The Costume Institute
Drawings and Prints
Egyptian Art
European Paintings
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Greek and Roman Art
Islamic Art
Robert Lehman Collection
Medieval Art—Main Building
Medieval Art—The Cloisters
Musical Instruments
Photographs
Twentieth Century Art

Acknowledgments

Index

Altdorfer, Albrecht (German, ca. 1480–1538) | Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) (Italian, ca. 1460–1528) | Avery, Milton | Böcklin, Arnold (Swiss, 1827–1901) | Baldung, Hans, called Grien (German, 1484/85–1545) | Baldus, Édouard (French, born Prussia, 1813–1889) | Balthus (Klossowski, Balthasar) (French, 1908–2001) | Bandinelli, Baccio | Barry, Joseph B. | Barye, Antoine-Louis (French, 1796–1875) | Baselitz, Georg (German, born 1938) | Bastien-Lepage, Jules (French, 1848–1884) | Batoni, Pompeo (Italian, 1708–1787) | Beckmann, Max (German, 1884–1950) | Bellano, Bartolomeo (Italian, Paduan, 1437/38–1496/97) | Bellini, Giovanni (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died 1516) | Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by 1236) | Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian, 1598–1680) | Bierstadt, Albert (American, 1830–1902) | Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | Bologna, Giovanni | Bonheur, Rosa (French, 1822–1899) | Bonnard, Pierre (French, 1867–1947) | Borch, Gerard ter (Dutch, 1617–1681) | Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Italian, Florentine, 1444/45–1510) | Boucher, François (French, 1703–1770) | Boulle, Andre-Charles (French, 1642–1732) | Braque, Georges (French, 1882–1963) | Breenbergh, Bartholomeus (Dutch, 1598–1657) | Breuer, Marcel (American, born Hungary, 1902–1981) | Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Florentine, 1503–1572) | Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder (Netherlandish, active by 1551, died 1569) | Brugghen, Hendrick ter (Dutch, 1588–1629) | Cézanne, Paul (French, 1839–1906) | Calder, Alexander | Canaletto (Canal, Giovanni Antonio) (Italian, 1697–1768) | Canova, Antonio (Italian, 1757–1822) | Carlin, Martin | Carnevale, Fra (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, Marchigian, active by 1445, died 1484) | Caro, Anthony (British, born 1924) | Carpaccio, Vitore (Italian, ca. 1460–ca. 1526) | Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1827–1875) | Carracci, Annibale (Italian, 1560–1609) | Cassatt, Mary (American, 1844–1926) | Chardin, Jean Siméon (French, 1699–1779) | Chase, William Merritt (American, 1849–1916) | Christus, Petrus (Netherlandish, active by 1444, died 1475/76) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Clodion, Claude Michel (French, 1738–1814) | Close, Chuck | Clouet, Jean (French, active by 1516, died 1540/41) | Cole, Thomas (American, 1801–1848) | Constable, John (British, 1776–1837) | Coper, Hans (British, born Germany, 1920–1981) | Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738–1815) | Corot, Camille (French, 1796–1879) | Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian, Parma, died 1534) | Cosimo, Piero di | Courbet, Gustave (French, 1819–1877) | Cox, James (English, ca. 1723–1800) | Cranach, Lucas, the Elder (German, 1472–1553) | Crivelli, Carlo (Italian, Venetian, active 1475–93) | Cuyp, Aelbert (Dutch, 1620–1691) | Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471–1528) | Da Besozzo, Michelino | Da Brescia, Moretto (Alessandro Bonvicino) | Daumier, Honoré (French, 1808–1879) | David, Gerard (Netherlandish, ca. 1455–1523) | David, Jacques-Louis (French, 1748–1825) | Davis, Stuart (American, 1892–1964) | De Kooning, Willem (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997) | Deck, Joseph-Théodore (French, 1823–1891) | Degas, Edgar (French, 1834–1917) | Delacroix, Eugène (French, 1798–1863) | Della Robbia, Andrea (Italian, 1435–1525) | Demuth, Charles (American, 1883–1935) | Derain, André (French, 1880–1954) | Di Paolo, Giovanni | Diebenkorn, Richard | Dix, Otto (German, 1891–1969) | Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bolognese, 1581–1641) | Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish, 1599–1641) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | Earl, Ralph (American, 1751–1801) | El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, 1541–1614) | Eyck, Jan van (Netherlandish, active by 1422, died 1441) | Fantin-Latour, Henri | Flandes, Juan de (Netherlandish, active [in Spain] by 1496, died 1519) | Flannagan, John Bernard | Foggini, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1652–1725) | Frémin, Jean | Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (French, 1732–1806) | French, Daniel Chester (American, 1850–1931) | Fresnaye, Roger de la (French, 1885–1925) | Freud, Lucian (British, born Germany, 1922–2011) | Friess, Joachim | Gagini, Antonello | Gainsborough, Thomas (British, 1727–1788) | Gauguin, Paul (French, 1848–1903) | Germain, Thomas | Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) (Italian, Florentine, 1449–1494) | Giambono, Michele (Italian, Venetian, 1420–1462) | Giotto di Bondone (Italian, Florentine, 1266/76–1337) | Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch, 1853–1890) | Goltzius, Hendrick (Netherlandish, 1558–1617) | Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, established 1831) | Gorky, Arshile (American, born Armenia, 1904–1948) | Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (Spanish, 1746–1828) | Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1725–1805) | Grueby Faience Company (American, 1894–ca. 1911) | Guardi, Francesco (Italian, 1712–1793) | Guercino (Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco) (Italian, 1591–1666) | Hals, Frans (Dutch, 1582/83–1666) | Harnett, William Michael | Hartley, Marsden (American, 1877–1943) | Hassam, Childe (American, 1859–1935) | Hathaway, Rufus (American, 1770–1822) | Heade, Martin Johnson (American, 1819–1904) | Hobbema, Meyndert | Hockney, David (British, born 1937) | Hogarth, William (British, 1697–1764) | Holbein, Hans, the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543) | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | Hooch, Pieter de (Dutch, 1629–1684) | Hopper, Edward (American, 1882–1967) | Houdon, Jean-Antoine (French, 1741–1828) | Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (French, 1780–1867) | Jamnitzer, Wenzel (German, Nuremberg, 1508–1585, master 1534) | Jordaens, Jacob | Joubert, Gilles | Justus of Ghent (Joos van Wassenhove) (Netherlandish, active by 1460, died ca. 1480) | Kandinsky, Vasily (French, born Russia, 1866–1944) | Kelly, Ellsworth | Kierstede, Cornelius (American, 1674–1757) | Klee, Paul (German, 1879–1940) | Kokoschka, Oskar | Koninck, Philips | Léger, Fernand (French, 1881–1955) | La Tour, Georges de (French, 1593–1652) | Labille-Guiard, Adélaïde (French, 1749–1803) | Labino, Dominick | Lachaise, Gaston | Lawrence, Thomas (British, 1769–1830) | Le Secq, Henri (French, 1818–1882) | Lemoyne, Jean-Louis (French, 1665–1755) | Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German, active United States, 1816–1868) | Lichtenstein, Roy | Limosin, Leonard (French, ca. 1505-–1575/77) | Lippi, Fra Filippo (Italian, Florentine, ca. 1406–1469) | Lombardo, Tullio (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1455–1532) | Lorraine, Claude (French, 1604–1682) | Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian, Venetian, born ca. 1480, died 1556) | Mackintosh, Charles Rennie (Scottish, 1868–1928) | Maes, Nicolaes (Dutch, 1634–1693) | Maillol, Aristide | Manet, Édouard (French, 1832–1883) | Mantegna, Andrea (Italian, Paduan, 1430/31–1506) | Martini, Simone (Italian, Sienese, active by 1315, died 1344) | Matisse, Henri (French, 1869–1954) | Memling, Hans (Netherlandish, active by 1465, died 1494) | Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564) | Millet, Jean-François (French, 1814–1875) | Monaco, Lorenzo (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1391–1423/24) | Monet, Claude (French, 1840–1926) | Moore, Henry (British, 1898–1986) | Moreau, Gustave (French, 1826–1898) | Moroni, Giovanni Battista (Italian, born no later than 1524, died 1578) | Mosca, Simone | Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban | Noguchi, Isamu (American, 1904–1988) | O'Keeffe, Georgia (America, 1887–1986) | Osservanza Master (Italian [Siena], active second quarter of 15th century) | Palmer, Erastus Dow (American, 1817–1904) | Paolo di Giovanni Fei (Italian, Sienese, active by 1369, died 1411) | Pater, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (French, 1695–1736) | Patinir, Joachim (Netherlandish, active by 1515, died 1524) | Peale, James (American, 1749–1831) | Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Umbrian, ca. 1445/50–1523?) | Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) (Italian, ca. 1422–1457) | Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881–1973) | Pisano, Giovanni | Pissarro, Camille (French, 1830–1903) | Pollock, Jackson (American, 1912–1956) | Post, Frans | Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594–1665) | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Prendergast, Maurice (American, 1858–1924) | Preti, Mattia (Italian, 1613–1699) | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian, 1483–1520) | Redon, Odilon (French, 1840–1916) | Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) | Remington, Frederic (American, 1861–1909) | Reni, Guido (Italian, 1575–1642) | Renoir, Auguste (French, 1841–1919) | Revere, Paul (American, 1734–1818) | Reynolds, Joshua (British, 1723–1792) | Ribera, Jusepe de (Spanish, 1591–1652) | Riesener, Jean-Henri (French, 1734–1806) | Rodin, Auguste (French, 1840–1917) | Roentgen, David (German, 1743–1807) | Romanino, Girolamo (Italian, 1484/87–?1560) | Rosa, Salvator (Italian, 1615–1673) | Rosenquist, James (American, born 1933) | Rossellino, Antonio (Italian, Florentine, 1427–1479) | Rousseau, Henri | Rousseau, Théodore (French, 1812–1867) | Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish, 1577–1640) | Ruhlmann, Emile-Jacques (French, 1879–1933) | Ruisdael, Jacob van | Sacchi, Andrea (Italian, 1599–1661) | Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (American, 1848–1907) | Sargent, John Singer (American, 1856–1925) | Sarto, Andrea del (Italian, Florentine, 1486–1530) | Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1423, died 1450) | Seurat, Georges (French, 1859–1891) | Severini, Gino | Sheeler, Charles (American, 1883–1965) | Sigalon, Antoine (French, 1524–1590) | Signorelli, Luca (Italian, Tuscan, active by 1470, died 1523) | Smith, David (American, 1906–1965) | Southworth, Albert Sands (American, 1811–1894) | Soutine, Chaim (French, born Lithuania, 1893–1943) | Steen, Jan (Dutch, 1626–1679) | Steichen, Edward (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973) | Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864–1946) | Still, Clyfford (American, 1904–1980) | Strand, Paul (American, 1890–1976) | Stuart, Gilbert (American, 1755–1828) | Stubbs, George (British, 1724-1770) | Talbot, William Henry Fox (British, 1800–1877) | Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1696–1770) | Tiffany & Company (American, 1837–present) | Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American, 1848–1933) | Tintoretto, Jacopo (Italian, 1518–1594) | Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1488–1576) | Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (French, 1864–1901) | Trumbull, John (American, 1756–1843) | Tura, Cosimo (Italian, ca. 1430–1495) | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (British, 1775–1851) | Twachtman, John Henry (American, 1853–1902) | Twombly, Cy | Vanrisamburgh, Bernard II (Bernard van Risenburgh) | Veneziano, Jacometto (Italian, Venetian, active 1472–97) | Vermeer, Johannes (Dutch, 1632–1675) | Veronese, Paolo (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528–1588) | Vigée Le Brun, Élisabeth Louise (French, 1755–1842) | Villon, Jacques | Wall, William Guy | Ward, John Quincy Adams (American, 1830–1910) | Watkins, Carlton E. (American, 1829–1916) | Watteau, Jean Antoine (French, 1684–1721) | Weyden, Rogier van der (Netherlandish, 1399/1400–1464) | Whistler, James McNeill (American, 1834–1903) | Wright, Frank Lloyd (American, 1867–1959) | Zuccaro, Taddeo