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Standen, Edith A., & Thomas M. Folds, "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

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Standen, Edith A., & Thomas M. Folds, "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"

Standen, Edith A., & Thomas M. Folds, "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1970 | ISBN: 0870990152 | English | PDF | 118 pages | 20.97 Mb

Here, each one reproduced in full color, are a hundred of the Museum's finest paintings, carefully chosen to offer a broad account of periods and styles. Eighty-five of the works are from European schools—Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, British—ranging in time from an Epiphany by Giotto to Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. The rest are American paintings, beginning with canvases by Pratt, Copley, and Stuart, continuing with Sargent, Homer, and Eakins, and concluding with a work by Morris Louis, painted in 1961. Long-time favorites are here (Bruegel's The Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Veronese's Mars and Venus United by Love, Watteau's Mezzetin) as well as extraordinary recent accessions (Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, La Tour's Fortune Teller, Monet's Terrace at Sainte-Adresse). Each reproduction is accompanied by comment on the painting's origin and significance. Expressly written for this book, these comments are the work of two of the Museum's experienced writers, Edith A. Standen and Thomas M. Folds. Introducing the publication, Claus Virch, Curator of European Paintings, gently warns persons who may unconsciously, through conditioning in our world of superabundant illustrations, settle for a color reproduction in place of the real thing. A book such as this, he notes, first of all hopes to prepare its "readers" for confrontations with the actual paintings. Second, it hopes to guide or refresh memories of the actual paintings. The aptness here of such reminders is partly a tribute to the care with which the hundred reproductions have been color-corrected and seen through the press. The book should appeal to a wide range of readers, both as a splendid sample of the Metropolitan's paintings collections and a stirring reminder of great achievements in art across a span of nearly seven centuries.
Introduction

Italian School
Dutch, Flemish, and German Schools
Spanish School
French School
British School
American School
American School, Twentieth Century

List of Plates


Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | Borch, Gerard ter (Dutch, 1617–1681) | Boucher, François (French, 1703–1770) | 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) | Canaletto (Canal, Giovanni Antonio) (Italian, 1697–1768) | Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (Italian, 1573–1610) | Carnevale, Fra (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, Marchigian, active by 1445, died 1484) | Carpaccio, Vitore (Italian, ca. 1460–ca. 1526) | Cassatt, Mary (American, 1844–1926) | Chardin, Jean Siméon (French, 1699–1779) | Christus, Petrus (Netherlandish, active by 1444, died 1475/76) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Clouet, Jean (French, active by 1516, died 1540/41) | Cole, Thomas (American, 1801–1848) | Constable, John (British, 1776–1837) | Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738–1815) | Corot, Camille (French, 1796–1879) | Courbet, Gustave (French, 1819–1877) | David, Jacques-Louis (French, 1748–1825) | Degas, Edgar (French, 1834–1917) | Delacroix, Eugène (French, 1798–1863) | Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish, 1599–1641) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, 1541–1614) | Eyck, Jan van (Netherlandish, active by 1422, died 1441) | Flandes, Juan de (Netherlandish, active [in Spain] by 1496, died 1519) | Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (French, 1732–1806) | Gainsborough, Thomas (British, 1727–1788) | Gauguin, Paul (French, 1848–1903) | Giotto di Bondone (Italian, Florentine, 1266/76–1337) | Gogh, Vincent van (Dutch, 1853–1890) | Gorky, Arshile (American, born Armenia, 1904–1948) | Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (Spanish, 1746–1828) | Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1725–1805) | Guardi, Francesco (Italian, 1712–1793) | Hals, Frans (Dutch, 1582/83–1666) | Hartley, Marsden (American, 1877–1943) | Hobbema, Meyndert | Hogarth, William (British, 1697–1764) | Holbein, Hans, the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543) | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | La Tour, Georges de (French, 1593–1652) | Lawrence, Thomas (British, 1769–1830) | Longhi, Pietro (Italian, 1702–1785) | Lorraine, Claude (French, 1604–1682) | Lotto, Lorenzo (Italian, Venetian, born ca. 1480, died 1556) | Louis, Morris (American, 1912–1962) | Manet, Édouard (French, 1832–1883) | Mantegna, Andrea (Italian, Paduan, 1430/31–1506) | Metsu, Gabriël (Dutch, 1629–1667) | Monaco, Lorenzo (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1391–1423/24) | Monet, Claude (French, 1840–1926) | Moroni, Giovanni Battista (Italian, born no later than 1524, died 1578) | Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban | Pater, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (French, 1695–1736) | Picasso, Pablo (Spanish, 1881–1973) | Pissarro, Camille (French, 1830–1903) | Pollock, Jackson (American, 1912–1956) | Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594–1665) | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Raeburn, Sir Henry | Redon, Odilon (French, 1840–1916) | Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) | Renoir, Auguste (French, 1841–1919) | Reynolds, Joshua (British, 1723–1792) | Ribera, Jusepe de (Spanish, 1591–1652) | Rosa, Salvator (Italian, 1615–1673) | Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish, 1577–1640) | Sargent, John Singer (American, 1856–1925) | Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1423, died 1450) | Savoldo, Giovanni Girolamo (Italian, active by 1508, died soon after 1548) | Seurat, Georges (French, 1859–1891) | Steen, Jan (Dutch, 1626–1679) | Stella, Joseph (American, born Italy, 1877–1946) | Stuart, Gilbert (American, 1755–1828) | Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1696–1770) | Tintoretto, Jacopo (Italian, 1518–1594) | Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian, ca. 1488–1576) | Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (French, 1864–1901) | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (British, 1775–1851) | Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (Spanish, 1599–1660) | Veronese, Paolo (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528–1588) | Watteau, Jean Antoine (French, 1684–1721) | Zurbarán, Francisco de (Spanish, 1598–1664)


Standen, Edith A., & Thomas M. Folds, "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art"