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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Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640 - Unknown - fine art print
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760 - Caution - fine art print
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Mattia Preti, 1663 - Pilate Washing His Hands - fine art print
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Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641 - The Windmill - fine art print
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Gerard ter Borch the Younger, 1660 - Curiosity - fine art print
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Cosmè Tura, 1470 - Portrait of a Young Man - fine art print
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Gerrit Dou, 1665 - Self-Portrait - fine art print
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Anton Raphael Mengs, 1776 - Self-Portrait - fine art print
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Bernardo Daddi, 1335 - Madonna and Child Enthroned - fine art print
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Peter Paul Rubens, 1616 - Wolf and Fox Hunt - fine art print
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José Sánchez, 1690 - The Marriage of the Virgin - fine art print
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John Singleton Copley, 1759 - Moses Gill - fine art print
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Unknown, 1200 - Dragon - fine art print
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Sir Peter Lely, 1670 - Study for a Portrait of a Woman - fine art print
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Lorenzo Lotto, 1547 - Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza - fine art print
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Salvator Rosa, 1660 - The Dream of Aeneas - fine art print
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Filippino Lippi, 1483 - Madonna and Child - fine art print
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Unknown, 1770 - John Hancock - fine art print
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Johannes Vermeer, 1670 - Allegory of the Catholic Faith - fine art print
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Unknown, 1776 - Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin - fine art print
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Unknown, 1776 - Portrait of Benjamin Franklin - fine art print
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Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490 - Saint Justina of Padua - fine art print
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Unknown, 1790 - Harbor Scene - fine art print
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Pieter de Hooch, 1657 - A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor - fine art print
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Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1754 - Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome - fine art print
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Jan van Goyen, 1647 - A View of The Hague from the Northwest - fine art print
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Pinturicchio, 1509 - The Chariot of Ceres - fine art print
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Pinturicchio, 1509 - Triumph of Amphitrite - fine art print
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Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633 - Bellona - fine art print
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Prince Demah Barnes, 1773 - Portrait of William Duguid - fine art print
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Hubert Robert, 1773 - The Return of the Cattle - fine art print
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Master of Frankfurt, 1496 - The Adoration of the Christ Child - fine art print
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Pinturicchio, 1509 - Putto with garlands - fine art print
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Velázquez, 1650 - Juan de Pareja (1606-1670) - fine art print
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