Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 33 (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Metropolitan Museum Journal #33

by Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbara Burn (Editor)

Metropolitan Museum Journal represents a richly illustrated study of well-known works in the Museum's collections, including pieces not on permanent display, selections from important exhibitions that have visited the Museum, and related works in other collections.

Volume 33 features an article rethinking early Cycladic sculpture, a reconstruction of an Egyptian relief of the Amarna Period, a catalogue of Egyptian duck flasks, a technical study of objects from Moche Peru, an investigation of Italian Renaissance birth trays, two essays about 16th-century French stained-glass window, a study of the porcelain decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, two articles inspired by a recent Tiepolo exhibition, a history of the Bowes family of England and their household furnishings, an analysis of an American autograph quilt, and a 19th-century American painting by Enoch Wood Perry.

200 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 1999

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."