The Masterpieces, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1)

2. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1427
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

3. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1427
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

4. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (left wing)
c. 1427
Oil on wood, 64,5 x 27,3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

5. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (left wing) (detail)
c. 1427
Oil on wood, 64,5 x 27,3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

6. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (right wing)
c. 1427
Oil on wood, 64,5 x 27,3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

7. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece (right wing)(detail)
c. 1427
Oil on wood, 64,5 x 27,3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

8. MASTER of Flémalle
Mérode Altarpiece
c. 1427
Oil on wood, 64 x 63 cm (central), 65 x
27 cm (each wing)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

9. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
(Part 1)

10. LIPPI, Fra Filippo
Portrait of a Man and a Woman
c. 1440
Tempera on wood, 64 x 42 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

11. LIPPI, Fra Filippo
Portrait of a Man and a Woman
c. 1440
Tempera on wood, 64 x 42 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

12. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Annunciation
c. 1485
Tempera and gold on wood, 19,1 x 31,4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

13. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
The Annunciation (detail)
c. 1485
Tempera and gold on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

14. CARAVAGGIO
The Musicians
1595-96
Oil on canvas, 92 x 118,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15. CARAVAGGIO
The Musicians (detail)
1595-96
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16. CARNEVALE, Fra
The Birth of the Virgin
1467
Tempera and oil on wood, 145 x 96 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

17. CARNEVALE, Fra
The Birth of the Virgin (detail)
1467
Tempera and oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

18. EYCK, Jan van
Diptych
1420-25
Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 56,5
x 19,5 cm (each)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

19. EYCK, Jan van
Crucifixion
1420-25
Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 56,5
x 19,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

20. EYCK, Jan van
Last Judgment
1420-25
Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 56,5
x 19,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

21. EYCK, Jan van
Last Judgment (detail)
1420-25
Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 56,5
x 19,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

22. HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein
1517
Paper, mounted on wood, 52,4 x 38,1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

23. HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
Portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein
(detail)
1517
Paper, mounted on wood, 52,4 x 38,1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

24. ANGELICO, Fra
Crucifixion
1420s
Tempera and gold on panel, 64 x 49 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

25. ANGELICO, Fra
Crucifixion (detail)
1420s
Tempera and gold on panel, 64 x 49 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

26. LA TOUR, Georges de
Fortune Teller
1632-35
Oil on canvas, 102 x 123,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

27. LA TOUR, Georges de
Fortune Teller (detail)
1632-35
Oil on canvas, 102 x 123,5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

28. MEMLING, Hans
Portrait of a Man at a Loggia
1472-75
Oil on oak panel, 40 x 29 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

29. MEMLING, Hans
Portrait of a Man at a Loggia (detail)
1472-75
Oil on oak panel, 40 x 29 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

30. MEMLING, Hans
Diptych with the Allegory of True Love
1485-90
Oil on oak panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

31. MEMLING, Hans
Diptych with the Allegory of True Love
(detail)
1485-90
Oil on oak panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

32. MEMLING, Hans
Diptych with the Allegory of True Love
(detail)
1485-90
Oil on oak panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

33. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Majas on Balcony
1800-14
Oil on canvas, 194,8 x 125,7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

34. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de
Majas on Balcony (detail)
1800-14
Oil on canvas, 194,8 x 125,7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Majas on Balcony (detail)
1800-14
Oil on canvas, 194,8 x 125,7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

36. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the most comprehensive
collection of art in the USA and one of the greatest in the world.
It was founded in 1870 and the present building in Central Park was opened in
1880. The museum is owned by the city, but is supported mainly by private
endowment, and the history of its foundation and growth illustrates the rapid rise
of New York at the end of the 19th century as the financial and cultural capital of
North America, and the growing economic supremacy of America over Europe.
Between 1880 and 1925, at a time when the major public collections in Europe
were engaged in consolidation, relying largely on their purchase grants and
other state aid, the Metropolitan Museum was being built up out of the private
fortunes of great businessmen, who collected rather for prestige than out of
connoisseurship, but collected only first-class works of art.
It has also benefited from a number of endowed purchase grants, many of them
unconditional, which have enabled it to progress not only as a collection of
outstanding works, but as a comprehensive and representative one.

37. The museum is rich in virtually every field of the fine and applied arts from all
parts of the world and also houses one of the world's largest art libraries.
Much of the collection of medieval art is housed in a separate building called
the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River. Opened in
1938, the Cloisters is a Medieval-style structure, largely made up of parts of
Romanesque and Gothic buildings transported from Europe. Many of the
works it houses were collected by the American sculptor George Grey
Barnard (1863-1938), who lived in France for much of his career.