Product Description: Praised in fifteenth-century humanist circles for his uncanny ability to create figures "so well that they seemed alive and missing only a soul," the great quattrocento master Antonello da Messina was born Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio about 1430 in Messina, a small city on the periphery of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies...read more

Product Description: This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696–1770, presented on the three-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth. It is organized by the Soprintenza ai Beni Artistici e Storia di Venezia, The Assessorato all Cultura del Comune di Venezia, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, not as a chronological survey but as a demonstration of Tiepolo's achievement and the enormous variety within his oeuvre...read more

Product Description: This handy, fully illustrated book provides an accessible walking tour of the Metropolitan Museum's world-famous galleries of European paintings, reopening to the public in their entirety in May 2013.

Product Description: The Accademia Carrara of Bergamo is one of Italy's premier paintings galleries but remains too little known outside the country. The temporary closure and restoriation of its galleries, housed in a grand neoclassical building in the North Italian city of Bergamo, has made possible a welcome collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bringing to New York fifteen of the Carrara's masterpieces by Venetian and North Italian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Giovanni Bellini's haunting Pietà with the Virgin and Saint John, the predella panels from Lorenzo Lotto's celebrated Martinengo Altarpiece, and Orpheus and Eurydice, an ambitious composition fromTitian's early career...read more