ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK – FALL 2024 VIDEOS

Lead Coordinator: Linda Downs

Artists and Their Work is an art history course that explores the lives and work of artists throughout the world.
 

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ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK
Metropolitan Museum European Art Collection: Look Again

Presenter: Marian Friedmann
Presentation Date: September 10, 2024

• Link to Met European Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened 45 newly installed European Paintings Galleries on November 20, 2023, Galleries 600–644 following the completion of an extensive 5-year skylight renovation project that began in 2018.

Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800 displays more than 700 works from the Museum’s world-famous holdings offering fresh dialogues and new thematic groupings. The stunning reconfigured galleries including recently acquired paintings and significant loans are displayed under new skylights. My talk will focus on the Gateway Gallery, 600, located at the top of the Great Hall staircase, featuring three monumental paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and room 601, with works from the early 14th century alongside the 20th-century work of Max Beckmann and Francis Bacon.