NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Last Supper

NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Last Supper

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The Last Supper
Limestone
German, lower Rhine, ca. 1500

Possibly part of the a large stone altar or retable, this Eucharistic scene, with titled perspective, clearly shows each disciple, including Judas (lower right) clutching his bag of m oney, a reference to his betrayal.

Ex coll: Emile Pares, Paris, The Friedham Collection.
Bequest of Michael Friedham, 1931 (32.100.143)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.

National Historic Register #86003556 (1986)

Museum of Arts and Design FEB2012 facade

Image by Mark B. Schlemmer
Caught a great trio of exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), one of my favorite NYC museums: "Swept Away - Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design", "Glasstress New York - New Art from the Venice Biennales" and "Korean Eye Energy and Matter."

Museum of Arts and Design FEB2012 Mike + Doug Starn

Image by Mark B. Schlemmer
This sculpture, made of etched glass rods, relates directly to the installation the artists made on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

www.flickr.com/photos/mbschlemmer/4672160101/in/set-72157...

Museum of Arts and Design FEB2012 crows3

Image by Mark B. Schlemmer

Museum of Arts and Design FEB2012 crows1

Image by Mark B. Schlemmer
These crows are made of burnt wood which renders them a realistic shiny, inky black color.