10/10/2021
The section "Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas" presents 11 thousand items on the territory of more than 4 thousand square meters. The Rockefeller family of American oil magnates played an important role in the development of this section.
The Art of Costume section was formed when the American Costume Museum became part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, this section includes more than 80 thousand costumes and jewelry, including the works of the most famous couturiers in the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York The section of "European Painting" is a relatively small collection, only 2.2 thousand canvases, but the value of this section is perhaps the greatest of all, with such care the museum compiled it and acquired canvases at the most famous auctions in the world. This section presents 37 works by Monet, 21 canvases by Cézanne, 18 paintings by Rembrandt, as well as Vermeer, Van Gogh, La Tour, Jacques-Louis David. The most recent acquisition of this section - "Madonna and Child" by Ducchio, cost the museum $ 45 million.
Unlike the section "European Painting", the section "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts" contains 50 thousand copies, dating back to the 14th century.