metropolitan museum of art

     

"Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer" was purchased in 1961 by the friends of this New York City museum

Trivia about metropolitan museum of art

  • Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Jug" is one of many treasures in this huge 5th Avenue museum
  • Popularly called the Met, this museum's collections range from European armor to baseball cards
  • "A chorus line of goddess figurines with birdlike faces" adorns this huge 5th Ave. art museum's new Cypriot Galleries
  • Painter John F. Kensett helped found it in the 1870s & his works launched its American Paintings Collection
  • A blue sculpture of a hippopotamus named William has become a mascot of this large NYC museum
  • 5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum
  • The Temple of Dendur is in the Sackler Wing of this ginormous NYC museum
  • You get the item seen here on entering this palace of culture
  • In 2008 Philippe de Montebello retired after 30 years directing this Fifth Ave. arts temple

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