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Highlights Tour: Visitor Favorites

This tour will lead you through time and across cultures in an exploration of the Museum's encyclopedic collection. Works of art by some of the greatest artists in the history of art are included as are works whose creators are unknown or anonymous. Two members of our staff designed this itinerary to reflect their favorite works in our collection as well as those of our visitors.

Tour stops (9)

Itinerary

  1. 1
    Marble relief with a dancing maenad

    Dancing Maenad

    Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos

    Date: ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14
    Accession Number: 35.11.3

  2. 2
    Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

    Cubiculum Nocturnum

    Date: ca. 50–40 B.C.
    Accession Number: 03.14.13a–g

  3. 3
    Power Figure (Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka)

    Power Figure

    Date: mid to late 19th century
    Accession Number: 2008.30

  4. 9
    Diana

    Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Diana

    Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

    Date: 1892–93, cast 1928
    Accession Number: 28.101

Itinerary

  1. 4
    Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

    Pollock, Autumn Rhythm

    Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York)

    Date: 1950
    Accession Number: 57.92

  2. 5
    Wheat Field with Cypresses

    Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Cypresses

    Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)

    Date: 1889
    Accession Number: 1993.132

  3. 6
    Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670)

    Velázquez, Juan de Pareja

    Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599–1660 Madrid)

    Date: 1650
    Accession Number: 1971.86

  4. 7
    The Adoration of the Magi

    Giotto, The Epiphany

    Giotto di Bondone (Italian, Florentine, 1266/76–1337)

    Date: possibly ca. 1320
    Accession Number: 11.126.1

  5. 8

    Astor Court

    Inspired by Brooke Russell Astor, who spent part of her childhood in China, The Astor Court and its adjoining reception room (Gallery 218) featuring Ming dynasty hardwood furniture opened to the public in 1981, a gift of the Vincent Astor Foundation.

    Modeled on a seventeenth-century courtyard in the Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets in Suzhou, the court was entirely constructed using traditional tools and techniques. An eighteenth-century imperial kiln was reopened to fire the ceramic tiles; rare nan wood was hand-planed into columns; specimen Taihu rocks were used for the rockeries, and a granite terrace was hand chiseled from a Suzhou quarry.

    A team of twenty-six Chinese craftsmen (along with a chef) spent six months in New York assembling the components.