TTC VIDEO - Museum Masterpieces - The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Richard Brettell

TTC VIDEO - Museum Masterpieces - The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Richard Brettell


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Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 7510
Taught by Richard Brettell
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D., Yale University



Where else can you find masterpieces extending from the dawn of civilization to today; or encyclopedic holdings from all the major cultures on earth; or genres ranging from paintings to period rooms, sculpture to suits of armor, metalwork to musical instruments—all situated in a palatial building beside one of the world\'s most magnificent parks?

No other museum covers the history of humanity and its achievements as thoroughly as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Professor Richard Brettell believes that The Metropolitan Museum of Art is not just the greatest art museum in America, but that it is also the most complete encyclopedic art museum on the planet, rivaled only by the Louvre in Paris and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, whose collections have significant gaps by comparison.


A Consummate Guide

Professor Brettell is a scholar, an author, a teacher, and a former museum director, known to many Teaching Company customers for his dazzling investigation of a much-loved period in From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism and his overview of a legendary cultural icon in Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre. Above all, he is a consummate guide who delights in selecting superb works of art and then exploring their resonance with other works. For example, in this course he exploits The Metropolitan Museum of Art\'s wide-ranging holdings to draw your attention to masterpieces that share intriguing similarities, linking different cultures, genres, and periods:

* Two noble countenances: Auguste Rodin\'s lifelike portrait bust of Honor