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The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video

By: Paul Gruber

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The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video

By: Paul Gruber

Describes the performances and production values of more than three hundred videos of more than one hundred fifty operas, and recommends the best overall video recording for each opera

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0393045366

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9780393045369

The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas

By: John W. Freeman,Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

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The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas

By: John W. Freeman,Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Here at last is the definitive opera story collection, the only one now authorized by the Metropolitan Opera. Written by the associate editor of Opera News magazine, the volume includes the complete plots of 150 different operas, biographical information on all of the 72 composers represented, easy access to the stories through both a table of contents and an index, and a foreword by Peter Allen.

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0393018881

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9780393018882

The Imperial Style

Fashions of the Hapsburg Era : Based on the Exhibition, Fashions of the Hapsburg Era, Austria-Hungary, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 1979-August 1980

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Imperial Style

Fashions of the Hapsburg Era : Based on the Exhibition, Fashions of the Hapsburg Era, Austria-Hungary, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 1979-August 1980

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This is the book based on the hugely successful exhibition Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 1979 through August 1980. The show presented more than 150 costumes, uniforms, and military and equestrian trappings dating from the eighteenth century in Austria and Hungary to the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918. But at the heart of the exhibition were the costumes and liveries worn at court in the late nineteenth century, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth—one of the most highly romantic periods in European history ... Each essay is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, with eighteen specially commissioned color plates of costumes and accouterments in the exhibition. A detailed chronology of the years between 1699 and 1918 and a selected bibliography are included"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website, viewed May 16, 2022.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870992325

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9780870992322

Prints & People

A Social History of Printed Pictures

By: Alpheus Hyatt Mayor,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Prints & People

A Social History of Printed Pictures

By: Alpheus Hyatt Mayor,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.

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0870991086

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9780870991080

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

By: William Griswold,Linda Wolk-Simon,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

By: William Griswold,Linda Wolk-Simon,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Focusing exclusively on examples from the 16th century, the great age of Italian drawing, this stunning volume, published to accompany an early-1994 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 124 prized works from The Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and some 20 private collections in New York. The catalogue is organized by school and, within each section, chronologically by artist. Each drawing is illustrated and presented with a discussion that places it in the context of the artist's career and explores the purpose for which it was made. Paper edition (unseen), $35. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0870996886

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The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

By: Ann Dumas,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

By: Ann Dumas,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This volume investigates Degas' dual role as both artist and collector. Featuring works by well-known artists like Delacroix, Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cassatt, and others, this publication is the definitive text outlining Degas' long career collecting important pieces by his predecessors as well as his contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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0870997971

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9780870997976

Infinite Jest

Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Constance C. McPhee,Nadine Orenstein

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Infinite Jest

Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Constance C. McPhee,Nadine Orenstein

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 13, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012.

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1588394298

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9781588394293

Art and the Empire City

New York, 1825-1861

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Art and the Empire City

New York, 1825-1861

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Presented in conjunction with the September 2000 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, this volume presents the complex story of the proliferation of the arts in New York and the evolution of an increasingly discerning audience for those arts during the antebellum period. Thirteen essays by noted specialists bring new research and insights to bear on a broad range of subjects that offer both historical and cultural contexts and explore the city's development as a nexus for the marketing and display of art, as well as private collecting; landscape painting viewed against the background of tourism; new departures in sculpture, architecture, and printmaking; the birth of photography; New York as a fashion center; shopping for home decorations; changing styles in furniture; and the evolution of the ceramics, glass, and silver industries. The 300-plus works in the exhibition and comparative material are extensively illustrated in color and bandw. Oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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0870999575

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9780870999574

The Academy of the Sword

Illustrated Fencing Books, 1500-1800

By: Donald J. LaRocca,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Academy of the Sword

Illustrated Fencing Books, 1500-1800

By: Donald J. LaRocca,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

The Academy of the Sword centers on an assemblage of rare illustrated books devoted to the subject of fencing and dueling, drawn (with one exception) from the library of the Arms and Armor Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... Accompanying the books and giving vivid impact to their illustrations are a selection of swords, rapiers, parrying daggers, bucklers, and other accoutrements, which follow the chronology of, and changes in, fighting styles depicted in the books"--Introduction, page 3

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0870998943

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9780870998942

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kimbell Art Museum

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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kimbell Art Museum

Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

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1588393003

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9781588393005

Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Philippe De Montebello

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Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Philippe De Montebello

Resoconto annuale degli acquisti relativi ai vari settori del Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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0870993518

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9780870993510

Treasures of a Lost Art

Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Pia Palladino,Cleveland Museum of Art,Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Treasures of a Lost Art

Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

By: Pia Palladino,Cleveland Museum of Art,Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Treasures of a Lost Art presents 144 leaves, cuttings, and illuminated manuscript fragments from the collection of Robert Lehman (1891-1969), one of the largest and most impressive private holdings of Italian manuscripts assembled after the First World War. Discussed here - with many of them handsomely illustrated in full color - are important examples of the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Previously unpublished, and perhaps even unknown to scholars, are works by some of the foremost Italian painters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including a leaf here attributed for the first time to the Sienese master Duccio di Buoninsegna and cuttings by Stefano da Verona and Cosimo Tura. Lesser-known arists, such as Neri da Rimini, Belbello da Pavia, and Girolamo da Cremona, once renowned for their beautifully illuminated volumes, are also discussed in full."--BOOK JACKET.

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1588390306

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9781588390301

Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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1588392880

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9781588392886

Book's by Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video

The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas

The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas

The Imperial Style

The Imperial Style

Prints & People

Prints & People

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

Sixteenth-century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

Art and the Empire City

Art and the Empire City

The Academy of the Sword

The Academy of the Sword

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983

Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983

Treasures of a Lost Art

Treasures of a Lost Art

Art of the Royal Court

Art of the Royal Court

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