The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The MET is located in New York City. It was founded in 1870 and has a collection of more than two million artworks that are exhibited on the museum's four main galleries. There are approximately 500,000 cataloged items in storage at any given time. Some of these collections span back from ancient Greek and Roman period through Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, eighteenth-century France, nineteenth-century German and The MET's own American art collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has collections from around the world with artworks that are created by artists from every continent. Some of these collections include Japanese woodcuts, French impressionist painting, American modernism. The Metropolitan Museum's art collection has been divided into 20 separate departments that include African, Islamic, Japanese and Korean, Oceanic aboriginal and Native American Art; Arms and Armor; Applied Arts; European Sculpture and Decorative Arts from 1300 to 1800; Egyptian Art; European Painting (1300–1800); European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century (1700–1800); European Painting (11th–18th Century) The MET Museum's Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo Art; Modern Art; Medieval Art; Musical Instruments; Paintings Conservation. The MET has been publishing their art collection for over a hundred years now. They now have more than 175 books on art, architecture and cultural history. These include publications with catalogues of the Fine Arts Department; Islamic Art department and Arms and Armor departments. Some publications are books on the history of The MET and its building, exhibitions catalogs and scholarly volumes. The Metropolitan Museum was initially established through a public-private partnership. Nowadays, it is privately funded but offers free entrance to all visitors.
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Albrecht Dürer, 1505 - Savior of the world - fine art print
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Jan van Goyen, 1653 - A Beach with Fishing Boats - fine art print
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Ludolf de Jongh, 1660 - Scene in a Courtyard - fine art print
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Lavinia Fontana, 1580 - Portrait of a Prelate - fine art print
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Giovanni Bellini, 1511 - The Circumcision - fine art print
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Charles Willson Peale, 1779 - George Washington - fine art print
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Gerard de Lairesse, 1671 - Apollo and Aurora - fine art print
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Henry Benbridge, 1770 - Portrait of a Gentleman - fine art print
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French Painter, 1770 - Woman with a mask (one of a set) - fine art print
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Piero di Cosimo, 1494 - A Hunting Scene - fine art print
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760 - A Virtue, Possibly Patriotism - fine art print
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Unknown, 1770 - Cupid Seated on a Garland - fine art print
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Giuseppe Recco, 1660 - A Cat Stealing Fish - fine art print
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Jacques Blanchard, 1630 - Angelica and Medoro - fine art print
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Italian, 1450 - Altar Shrine with Four Saints - fine art print
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Gerard ter Borch the Younger, 1650 - Portrait of a Seated Man - fine art print
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Unknown, 1750 - The Hunting Party—New Jersey - fine art print
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Frans Hals, 1650 - Portrait of a Man - fine art print
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Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655 - Old Woman Cutting Her Nails - fine art print
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Master of Saint Francis, 1266 - Saints Bartholomew and Simon - fine art print
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Pinturicchio, 1509 - Galatea - fine art print
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Pieter Jansz. Quast, 1635 - A Party of Merrymakers - fine art print
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David Teniers the Younger, 1650 - Adam and Eve in Paradise - fine art print
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Frans Hals, 1623 - Young Man and Woman in an Inn - fine art print
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John Singleton Copley, 1766 - Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne - fine art print
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Henry Benbridge, 1771 - Mrs. Benjamin Simons - fine art print
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French Painter, 1770 - Woman with a dog (one of a set) - fine art print
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George Romney, 1795 - Self-Portrait - fine art print
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760 - Metaphysics - fine art print
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Pinturicchio, 1509 - The Three Graces - fine art print
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