The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Introduction
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is among the largest historical museum in the United States of America with the most vital art collection in the entire world. The entire collection of the entire museum contains almost two million art works collected from various parts of the world. The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located in the central park around the Museum mile. Standing in the eastern edge of the central park the area of the museum involves almost seventeen curatorial art collections (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 65). Most of the collections obtained from the ancient Egypt are found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The essence of the paper is to discuss the importance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the future of the museum.
The entire photographs and other curatorial that explain the developments in the entire Egyptian are stored in the museums gallery. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also contains the sculptures, paintings and collection of the ancient America. Most of the artifacts stored in the museum reveal the manner in which the entire American community has developed. The photographs and paintings concerning the war between the Native Americans and the Indian are well indicated in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Picon, Carlos & Puma 71). Most of the museum also consists of the vital information and collections from the entire world to indicate the history of most of the places. The main aim of constructing the Metropolitan Museum of Art was to store the various historical facts concerning various places. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is still one of the most vital museums in the world. In the coming future, the collections of the museums are expected to increase. This is for the key reason of increasing artifacts and historical events occurring and still to take place in the world today.
Background history of Metropolitan Museum of Art
The history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is dated back in the year 1866 in France when a group of Americans living in Paris decided to commence a national centre for historical events (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 83). In accordance to the group of the Americans, the essence of commencing the Metropolitan Museum of Art was to ensure that the history of the Americans was stored safely. In accordance to the members of the group, the future American generation needed to learn and understand the history of the past people.
This meant that the ancient Americans were supposed to store vital ancient gallery, which would ensure that the future generation learn and have an idea of the events that took place various years in the American society. Jey John who was a lawyer was the one that proposed the idea of commencing the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Picon, Carlos & Puma 79). After acquiring enough materials concerning the museum, he travelled to America to launch his already developed plan. In conjunction with the members of the union league club in New York, the construction of the museum began. Since the members of the union league club consisted of the artists, civil leaders and art collectors, it was easier to commence the construction of the museum.
In the year 1870, in the month of April 13, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated and started functioning in the American society but with minimal historical information. The public in Dodworth were allowed to visit the building located at 681-Fifth Avenue. Although the Metropolitan Museum of Art was opened to the public who would visit the museum, a small percentage of the people fund the museum vital at that moment. This is for the key reason that most of the members of the society did not find any value in reading the information in the museum. Other members declined the offer of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art because of the fact that entrance fee was demanded. In the year 1870, on 20th November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art obtained the first historical object which was a statue of the roman sarcophagus (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 94).
In the year 1871, the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art began increasing after 174 collections of paintings from European were added to the collection of the museum. The European paintings involved various works of Nicolas poussin, Dyck Anthony and Giovanni Tiepolo. However, in the year 1880, on march 30, the museum of Metropolitan Museum of Art was located to Douglas Mansion located in the 128 west 14th street (Picon, Carlos & Puma 131). This is the position of the Metropolitan Museum of Art up to current times but the number of the artifacts has drastically increased. From the year 1874 to the year 1998, various artifacts from diverse locations were added to the museums.
The number of the historical events, artifacts, history, drawings, and paintings in the entire museum has increased. The size of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has also been renovated various times and expansion of the building has taken place occasionally. This is to ensure that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is large enough to store historical information from almost all over the world. In the present, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is divided into various sections in accordance to the historical events, type of drawings and paintings and the nation from which the artifact was obtained (Picon, Carlos & Puma 41). Since the Metropolitan Museum of Art consists of the historical events that occurred from all the parts of the world, it is necessary that the artifacts from various nations be indicated. This assists the visitors to identify the actual historical information interested and the actual places to visit. The large size of the museum also depicts the necessity of dividing the museum into the various locations. This assists the movement of the visitors into the museum with ease.
Introduction of sources
Various sources are vital in offering the details concerning the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the future of the museum. However, the degree of information and value of the information vary from one source to another. In undertaking the research and study vital in this case, the most vital sources are two books. The books are vital in the research in the sense that they contain meaningful information concerning the museum. The books also consist of various recommendations that ought to be taken by the American government to preserve the history of America. In some of the chapters of the books, the essence of the historical information in the books is depicted to the readers. The two vital sources used in undertaking the research concerning the history and the future of the Metropolitan Museum of Art encompass of:
Safford, Frances G, Morrison H. Heckscher, and Mary-Alice Rogers. American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum, 2008. Print.
In the book, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the history and foundation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in early years in American has been fully discussed. In the first five chapters, the book deals with the historical background of the museum and the way in which various artifacts concerning the museum were collected. In the chapters, the authors Safford et al, identifies the key participants that contributed to the successful development of the museum. The first chapters of the books also try to reveal the importance of the museum to the current and the future generation.
In accordance to the authors Safford et al, the Metropolitan Museum of Art serves the current American society and the entire world with meaningful historical events that already took place. This reminds the American and other members of the world about the events that have contributed to the change in the current world. In reading the historical events, the authors suggest that the person automatically gains the information regarding the various historical events. This assist in the reduction of the various questions that members of the society might contain in regards to the past.
Picon, Carlos A, and Puma R. D. De. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. Print.
In accordance to the authors, Picon, Carlos and Puma the authors of the book, “Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome” it is important that members of the society appreciate the historical events that took place various years in the past. The book begins by insisting the importance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in preserving the history of the various parts of the world (De and Kathleen 58). The authors Picon, Carlos and Puma try to identify the importance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the society and the entire world at large. In some other parts of the book, it reveals that most of the members of the society have the behavior of forgetting the traditional culture in the community. The book tries to inform the people concerning the importance of the traditional cultural occurrence in the human life. The book also identifies that most of the current members of the society have forgotten about the cultural values.
The importance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art plays various functions in the world today because of the historical information in the museum. Although the museum is located in the American society, it is still beneficial to the entire parts of the world. One of the most vital functions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the society is that it preserves the historical background of various places, people and events. Almost everything in the world has its own historical background (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 102). This explains the reason why the Metropolitan Museum of Art has various artifact collected from the various places in the entire world. Preservation of the artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art involves storing historical information in a safe and secure place and exposed to people at only limited supervision. The New York State Legislature issued the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the right of incorporation in the year 1870 (De and Kathleen 76). The main aim of this act was to continue issuing and maintaining the City Museum and Library. The nature of life advanced depending on the general knowledge of the based general subject of the furnishing of the instructions and recreations. The museum was created in the year 1872, and it was located at the fifth avenue of the New York City.
According to John Taylor Johnston, he managed to write a personal art collection organized together in the museum. The Metropolitan that holds the initial price that it can be recommended to the development of the temporary space that is available in less space than the requirements that were mentioned by the organizational (Shelley 89). The organization was issued with a Metropolitan Museum of Art Act of incorporation, starred diverse question meant to criticize the general knowledge of diverse subjects leading to the development of subjects that end up furnishing various instructions and recreations.
The museum’s collection of the American arts, one of the finest and they were comprehensible in the entire world. The new installation of a new website, the authors keep on stationing galleries of the interior created in the year the recent 2012 (Burn 67). The new installation of factors that produce enlarged motivation based on the act that it would earn us the motivation. According to divergence of the port providing services, decorative art pieces with low collection of the French furniture meant for decoration Galleries.
During the year 2011, there was more than a thousand works of the collection of the Museum Department of Islamic Art, which were comprehensive gatherings of the material wealth in the world. They managed to compose thousand of works from the prominent collection to the Museum Department of Islamic art. This was one of the most successful gatherings that attracted many people from the entire world (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 65). They turned out in large numbers to view the marvelous work by the artists from the best part of the events. The organization of the galleries based on the geographical regions emphasizing on the rich diversity of the Islamic world, during a span of thirteen hundred years, as they took time to understand their cultures. The metropolitan museum of the Art American Wing opened in the year 2009. After the years of construction and collection of the unparallel components of the American furniture, sculpture, stained glasses, the ceramics, and other jewels were erotized ensuring the maintenance of courtesy and courtesy of the historical positions (De and Kathleen 89). According to a research carried out recently, it was concluded that painter George Bellows was the greatest in the summers of the Woodsto. Majority of the modern artists have the tendency working very harsh and this propelled the students to be the best juices appeared to be one of the best. The metropolitan did not make it to go to the history of the final audit that captured the simplicity of the painter’s life (Burn 78). This elaborates the sense of the man as well as the height of artistry, a major achievement. The metropolitan exhibition is a major practice that has the purpose of marrying and making art. This means that he has to change some behaviors so that they can fit in the artistic worlds, they schedule their time so that they can participate in their work .
Special Exhibitions
The museum has been taken literally from a number of the information derived from the artists of various museums after they are given the chance of expressing themselves in the exhibitions (Safford, Morrison & Mary-Alice 65). These events are mostly organized combining people from all the parts of the world as they merge together to form their nights. These exhibition are located at the historical to ever less lo the control on their welfares.
The ancient roman group had a great importance on the beauty of their world. Currently the Metropolitan Museum of art announced their interest in the marble structures that were collected from the second century B.C. these discoveries were made in Rome in the years 1892. The statue was an old loan to the museum from a certain private collector since the year 1992, and it had been viewed as the central part of the Leon Levy and the Shelby white Sculpture Court that was opened since the year 1992 and later viewed as antiquity (Shelley 89). This was the prior development in the second century BC, and it continued since 2007 services. It was first developed in the second century B.C, continued to be popular during the Renaissence and later it became influential due to the subsequent periods of the western European art. The Metropolitan Museum has influenced the development of the pleasurable and beneficent of nature and the society. The attendants plan the links the connection of the museum with the Aphrodite, whom they serve as handmaidens. The ancient authors served as an allegory for the cycle of giving, accepting and the returning favors (Burn 97). The discovery of Rome in 1892 near the ancient Forum of the Nerva and the Vespasian’s Temple with the collection of the sculptures entered the collection of the Joachim Ferroni attracted the scholarly attention. The three Graces were traditionally referred as nudes with water jars that were covered with drapery at their feet, representing the ultimate derive of the famous classical statue of the Aphrodite by Praxiteles located at the knidos.
Works cited
Safford, Frances G, Morrison H. Heckscher, and Mary-Alice Rogers. American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum, 2008. Print.
Picon, Carlos A, and Puma R. D. De. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. Print.
De, Montebello P, and Kathleen Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York: The Museum, 1983. Print.
Burn, Barbara. Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Print.
Shelley, Marjorie. The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Print.
