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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Tommaso Fiorentino, 1521 - Portrait of a Man - fine art print
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Gerrit Dou, 1655 - An Evening School - fine art print
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Anthony van Dyck, 1618 - Portrait of a Man - fine art print
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Albert Bierstadt, 1875 - Sunrise on the Matterhorn - fine art print
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Giacomo Ceruti, 1740 - A Woman with a Dog - fine art print
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Jean François de Troy, 1724 - The Garter - fine art print
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Spanish - Head of a Man - fine art print
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Bernhard Strigel, 1510 - Portrait of a Woman - fine art print
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George Cochran Lambdin, 1878 - Roses - fine art print
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Anton Dieffenbach, 1856 - Window - fine art print
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Adolphe Monticelli - Four Figures - fine art print
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Paolo Veronese, 1580 - Alessandro Vittoria (1524 / 25-1608) - fine art print
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Petrus Christus, 1450 - The Annunciation - fine art print
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Ammi Phillips, 1830 - Thomas Storm - fine art print
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Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854 - Young Husband: First Marketing - fine art print
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Nicolaes Berchem, 1644 - Rest - fine art print
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Sir Henry Raeburn, 1808 - The Drummond Children - fine art print
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Jean Clouet, 1536 - Guillaume Bude (1467-1540) - fine art print
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Defendente Ferrari - Saints John the Evangelist and Lawrence - fine art print
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Gilbert Stuart, 1794 - Josef Jaudenes and Nebot - fine art print
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French Painter - Henri III (1551–1589), King of France - fine art print
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Pieter Jansz. Pourbus - Portrait of a Young Woman - fine art print
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Simon Vouet, 1618 - Woman Playing a Guitar - fine art print
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Martín Rico y Ortega - A Spanish Garden - fine art print
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Netherlandish Painter - Portrait of a Woman - fine art print
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Thomas Cole, 1833 - The Titan's Goblet - fine art print
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French Painter - Portrait of a Member of the de Thou Family - fine art print
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Antoine Watteau, 1718 - Mezzetin - fine art print
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El Greco, 1610 - Saint Andrew - fine art print
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Petrus Christus, 1449 - A Goldsmith in his Shop - fine art print
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Thomas Rowlandson - Macassar Oil, An Oily Puff for Soft Heads - fine art print
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French - Portrait of a Young Man - fine art print
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Joseph Anton Koch, 1824 - Heroic Landscape with Rainbow - fine art print
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Giovanni Baronzio, 1340 - Scenes from the Life of Christ - fine art print
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Master of Cubélls, 15th century - Altarpiece - fine art print
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Peter Paul Rubens - Frans Francken I (1542-1616) - fine art print
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Edgar Degas, 1890 - Dancers, Pink and Green - fine art print
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Domenico Fetti, 1619 - The Parable of the Mote and the Beam - fine art print
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