On Saturday, at the end of our intensive stay in New York we visit a museum:
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.
The permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armour from around the world.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.”
You can take photos in the museum. Despite the crowds and the resulting difficulties in positioning myself in front of the paintings or sculptures, I was able to take a few (about 60) photos that give an idea of this amazing collection.
View from the museum's fifth floor on Manhattan:
I did not sign the names of painters, because most of the photographed works are the most famous pieces and I would like you just to enjoy their beauty.
And the rest can be read in the albums!!
We had a unique opportunity to see the periodic exhibition of only one painting. But the strength of its expression is extraordinary:
“To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), The Met presents the artist’s painting Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness (begun around 1483), a special loan from the Vatican Museums.”
