The Masterpieces, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2)

2. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

3. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

4. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

5. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

6. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel, 98 x 85 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

7. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picture Gallery, The Masterpieces
(Part 2)

8. MEMLING, Hans
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
1479-80
Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

9. MEMLING, Hans
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
(detail)
1479-80
Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

10. MEMLING, Hans
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
(detail)
1479-80
Oil on wood, 67 x 72 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

11. MEMLING, Hans
Virgin with the Child Reaching for his
Toe
1490s
Oil on oak panel, 24,1 x 17,8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

12. MEMLING, Hans
Virgin with the Child Reaching for his
Toe (detail)
1490s
Oil on oak panel, 24,1 x 17,8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

13. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
1653
Oil on canvas, 144 x 137 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

14. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (detail)
1653
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Man in Oriental Costume
1632
Oil on canvas, 153 x 111 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16. REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
Man in Oriental Costume (detail)
1632
Oil on canvas, 153 x 111 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

17. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
The Judgment of Paris
ca. 1528
Oil on beech, 101.9 x 71.1cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

18. CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
The Judgment of Paris (detail)
ca. 1528
Oil on beech, 101.9 x 71.1cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

19. ROSSELLI, Cosimo
Madonna and Child with Angels
1480-82
Tempera, gold on panel, 85 x 58 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

20. ROSSELLI, Cosimo
Madonna and Child with Angels (detail)
1480-82
Tempera, gold on panel, 85 x 58 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

21. MEMLING, Hans
The Annunciation
c. 1489
Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

22. MEMLING, Hans
The Annunciation (detail)
c. 1489
Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

23. MEMLING, Hans
The Annunciation (detail)
c. 1489
Oil on wood, 79 x 55 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

24. UCCELLO, Paolo
Portrait of a Lady
1450s
Oil on canvas, 39 x 26 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

25. UCCELLO, Paolo
Portrait of a Lady (detail)
1450s
Oil on canvas, 39 x 26 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

26. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de
Silva y
Infanta María Teresa
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

27. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de
Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de
Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York

29. 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.

30. 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.