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The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a variety of books, museum guides, and periodicals from the past six decades online.
They have more than 1,600 publications that are free to explore, some readable online, and some downloadable in PDF form.
Here are some examples:
They have more than 1,600 publications that are free to explore, some readable online, and some downloadable in PDF form.
MetPublications - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Explore over 1,700 titles published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including books, museum guides, and periodicals from the last six decades.www.metmuseum.org
Here are some examples:
Roman Portraits: Sculptures in Stone and Bronze in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portrait sculptures are among the most vibrant records of ancient Greek and Roman culture. They represent people of all ages and social strata: revered poets and philosophers, emperors and their family members, military heroes, local dignitaries, ordinary citizens, and young children. The Met's...
Etruscan Art in The Metropolitan Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of ancient Etruscan art includes over one thousand objects dating from about 900 B.C. to about 100 B.C. They have been acquired either in groups or individually since the first group of Etruscan vases was donated in 1875 by Luigi Palma di Cesnola...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, Greece and Rome - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The art created in Greece during the fifth century B.C. established the standards to which all Western art has aspired well into our own times. Indeed, the word "classical," when used either specifically or figuratively, usually refers to those ideals of beauty and proportion developed on the...
Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In 1870, the year of its founding, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired its first work of art, a Roman sarcophagus from about 200–225 A.D. Since that beginning, the Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Art has built a vast and rich collection that totals over seventeen thousand objects...