In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's
successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks,
this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration,
scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large survey published
in 30 years, and the first large general survey of the Met's paintings
collection it is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings
of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world.
This impressive book's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes
it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction