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Burdick allegedly never attended a baseball game, a major part of his vast gift to
This collection is a searchable set of all Metropolitan Museum of Art press kits issued from 1995 to 2015 and all press releases issued from 1940 to 2009.
Watson Library, the 1969 gift of the Robert Lehman Collection to the Museum, and
Said to have been discovered at the mouth of the Nile River, Egypt (Sotheby’s, New York. Sale catalogue, November 21-22, 1985, lot 50) By 1931, art market, Rome (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, neg
Credit Line: Purchase, Philodoroi Gifts, Acquisitions Fund, Mary and Michael Jaharis Gift
Sheet: 25 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (64 × 49.5 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift
On October 21, 1953, Joseph Cornell (American, 1903–1972) visited an exhibition of modern art at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York and was enthralled by one work, The Man at the Café (1914), by the Cubist artist Juan Gris An Cornell’s The This The Juan The Cornell’s Homage Joseph In Untitled Joseph Cornell’s Josette; Joseph This Le Joseph This
The Man at the Café is a promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the
La fontane di Roma nella piazze e luoghi publici della città … libro primoLe fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano … parte secondaLe fontane ne‘ palazzi e ne‘ giardini di Roma
x 40.4 x 3.4 cm) Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture Credit Line: Gift
Brown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in A Gift of Sound: The Crosby Brown Collection
Inscription: Lettered in plate below margin: ‚VEDVTA DEL PALAZZO DAL PIANO DEL GIARDINO CON LE SVE FONTANE (…) / Gio. Giacomo Rossi le stampa in Roma alla Pace co Priv. del. S.Pont. / Gio
(30 × 44.7 cm) Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture Credit Line: Gift
An object included in the exhibition Mandalas initiated discussions amongst curators and conservators about the ethical considerations of inpainting.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Chino Franco Roncoroni, in celebration
Inscription: Upper right, in pen and brown ink: 2Lower right, in pen and brown ink: illegible figuresBottom center, in graphite: 18Verso, upper left, in graphite: 1980.515Verso, upper right, in graphite: 100
Dimensions: 6 x 8 7/16 in. (15.2 x 21.5 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: Gift
