The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People

by Jonathan Conlin

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range-including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor-and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231205805
• ISBN13: 9780231205801
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 440 Pages