The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Director's Tour: A Walking Guide - Softcover

Thomas P. Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857598288 ISBN 13: 9781857598285

Publisher: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Let the Metropolitan Museum's director, Thomas P. Campbell, act as your personal guide to one of the world's most renowned and encyclopaedic collections of art. Based on the museum's immensely popular audio tour, this handy book provides fascinating guided visits through the first and second floors of the museum, zeroing in on about 50 masterpieces on each tour. Also provided is a shorter itinerary of 'Visitor's Favourites'. Highlights include the Temple of Dendur, from ancient Nubia, Egypt; an exquisitely frescoed bedroom from Boscoreale, near Pompeii; majestic Assyrian reliefs; Rembrandt's Aristotle with a Bust of Homer; armour from both Europe and Asia; an exquisitely carved ivory pendant mask from Benin, Africa; Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware; Van Gogh's celebrated painting Wheat Field with Cypresses, and many other works.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas P. Campbell is the director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1857598288
• ISBN 13: 9781857598285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96