... public institution to accept works of art by Matisse...by 1979 the Museum owned five of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers...the Department of Greek and Roman Art now oversees thousands of objects, including one of the finest collections in glass and ...

2005-09-22

... Museum's approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world – Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually ...

2005-09-22

To celebrate the extraordinary loan of Vermeer's The Milkmaid, the Metropolitan Museum presents Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid, a special exhibition that brings together all five paintings by Vermeer from its collection, along with a select group of works by other Delft artists, placing Vermeer’s superb picture in its historical context.

... sent The Milkmaid , perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), to the Metropolitan Museum. To celebrate this extraordinary ...

About eighty-five paintings by some thirty artists, thirty-five drawings, and related objects cast the familiar "Delft School" in a new light—one that emphasizes the roles of the neighboring court at The Hague, and of sophisticated patrons in Delft.

Special Exhibition Galleries, The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor

... School is best known for its quiet images of domestic life by Johannes Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. These and other Delft artists painted views of ...

Part of the lecture series by Janetta Rebold Benton, "Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassicism."

$23

11:00 a.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Surveys emerging pictorial trends in the work of major artists, such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Vermeer, in relation to religious, political, and social developments in Holland and Flanders in the Golden Age of Netherlandish painting.

Andaleeb Banta

Free with Museum admission

11:00 a.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall