Research Catalog

Title

Only the best : masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon / edited by Katharine Baetjer and James David Draper.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baetjer, Katharine.
• Draper, James David.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

Description

xi, 163 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 27 cm.

Subject

• Museu Calouste Gulbenkian > Exhibitions
• Museu Calouste Gulbenkian > Catalogs
• Art > Lisbon > Exhibitions
• Art > Lisbon > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from Nov. 16, 1999, through Feb. 27, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

President and Chairman's Foreword / Victor de Sa Machado -- Director's Foreword / Joao Castel-Branco Pereira -- Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Calouste Gulbenkian: The Collector as Creator / Joao Castel-Branco Pereira -- A Home for Our "Friends of a Lifetime" / Nuno Vassallo e Silva -- Catalogue. Roman, Islamic, Armenian, Egyptian, and Chinese Art / Mario de Castro Hipolito, Maria Helena Trindade Lopes and Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos / [and others]. Medieval and Renaissance Art / Manuela Fidalgo, Maria Rosa Figueiredo and Luisa Sampaio. Islamic Art / Maria Fernanda Passos Leite and Maria Queiroz Ribeiro. Old Master Paintings / Luisa Sampaio. Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts / Isabel Pereira Coutinho and Maria Fernanda Passos Leite. French Sculpture / Maria Rosa Figueiredo. Nineteenth-Century Painting / Luisa Sampaio. Lacquer, Lalique, and Modern Bindings / Isabel Pereira Coutinho, Manuela Fidalgo and Maria Fernanda Passos Leite.

ISBN

• 0870999265 (hc. : alk. paper)
• 0870999273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810965461 (Abrams)

LCCN

^^^99044794^

OCLC

42290201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library