THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART September – October 2007 Museum Plan

Museum Information The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, New York, 10028-0198 Tel. (212) 535-7710 TTY (212) 650-2551 www.metmuseum.org

Entrances Uris Information Desk Parking Garage Dining Facilities Balcony Café Audio Guide Lost and Found Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street In Uris Center for Education, For information, call The Cafeteria (balcony overlooking A random-access recorded Inquire at Information Desks. Fifth Avenue at 81st Street Fifth Avenue at 81st Street. (212) 535-7710. (1st floor access behind Great Hall) guide to special exhibitions Shops Hours* Cell Phones Medieval Hall) Sandwiches, salad, desserts, and selections from the Located off Great Hall. Friday 9:30a.m.–9:00p.m. Cell /mobile phones permitted Comfortable and bright. and snacks. permanent collection—all-in- Featuring publications and Saturday 9:30a.m.–9:00p.m. Accessibility in Great Hall only. Self-service dining. Grill, hot Tuesday–Sunday one player. Keep it all day. reproductions produced by entrées, sandwiches, and 11:00a.m.– 4:30p.m. $7.00; $6.00 Members; $5.00 Sunday 9:30a.m.–5:30p.m. Street-level entrances at Fifth Photography and Sketching the Museum. Member’s Avenue and 81st Street and salad bar for lunch, snacking, children under 12. Produced by Monday Closed except Still photography for personal, Balcony Bar discount. at Museum Parking Garage. and dinner. Booster seats Antenna Audio. Sponsored by September 3, noncommercial use only, (balcony overlooking First Aid Wheelchairs at coat-check and high chairs available. Bloomberg. For information, October 8 without flash and without Great Hall) Ask any Security Officer. areas. Infrared sound Friday, Saturday call (212) 396-5144. Tuesday 9:30a.m.–5:30p.m. tripod, is permitted in the Live classical music; cocktails enhancement systems are 11:30a.m.–7:00p.m. The Cloisters Wednesday 9:30a.m.–5:30p.m. permanent collection.Tripod and appetizers served. Concerts and Lectures available for auditoriums Sunday, Tuesday–Thursday The Cloisters is a branch Thursday 9:30a.m.–5:30p.m. passes are available Tuesday– Friday, Saturday Consult brochure at and there are assistive 11:30a.m.– 4:30p.m. of the Museum devoted to Closed: January 1, Friday. The use of movie or 4:30–8:30p.m. Information Desks or at listening systems at the art and architecture of Thanksgiving Day, and video cameras is prohibited. Petrie Court Café (last call 8:00p.m.) Concerts & Lectures on first Information Desks. For medieval Europe. Located December 25. Museum’s Gallery Photography (1st floor European Trustees Dining Room floor in Egyptian Wing. Advance *Galleries are cleared at 5:15p.m., programs and other sale by mail or telephone. in Fort Tryon Park in and Sketching Policy available Sculpture Court overlooking Exclusively for Members. Sunday–Thursday, and 8:45p.m., information for visitors with Call Concerts & Lectures, northern Manhattan. at Information Desks. Central Park) Inquire at Membership Desk Friday and Saturday. disabilities or for a copy of European-style, à la carte (212) 570-3949, for information For directions, inquire at Guided Tours in Great Hall. Reservations Information Desks, call Admission the Access Information restaurant. Lunch, dinner, or to purchase tickets. and Map brochure, call Individual visitors: free with suggested, call (212) 570-3975. (212) 923-3700, or visit $20.00 recommended for adults, weekend brunch, and daily Thomas J. Watson Library (212) 570-3764; admission. In ten languages. Roof Garden Café www.metmuseum.org. $15.00 recommended for afternoon tea with waiter Tuesday–Friday TTY (212) 570-3828. Consult Information Desks. (May–October) Audio guide available. seniors (65 and over), $10.00 service. Full bar. 10:00a.m.– 4:40p.m. The Access Information and (elevator access to the Roof, recommended for students, Groups Friday, Saturday For graduate students Hours Map brochure is also available includes the Main Building and Advance reservations 11:30a.m.–10:30p.m. European Sculpture Court) and qualified researchers. Tuesday–Sunday at Information Desks. The Cloisters on the same day; required. Highlights Tours (last seating 8:30p.m.) Panoramic views of the New For information, call 9:30a.m.– 4:45p.m. York City skyline and Central free to Members and children Coat-Check Areas for adults and tourist groups Sunday, Tuesday–Thursday (212) 650-2225. (November–February) in English and many other 11:30a.m.– 4:30p.m. Park. Cocktails and light fare. 9:30a.m.–5:15p.m. under 12 with an adult. All bags, backpacks, and Amenities for Children packages, 16" x 16" x 8" or languages, call (212) 570-3711. Afternoon tea begins at Friday, Saturday (March–October) Great Hall Information Desk Back carriers available at larger, must be deposited in School groups (K–12), call 2:30p.m. Reservations for 10:00a.m.–8:00p.m., Closed Mondays, January 1, Information about the coat-check areas at 81st the coatrooms. For safety of (212) 288-7733. groups or dinner, call Martini bar 5:30–8:00p.m. Thanksgiving Day, and Museum, including maps and Street and 82nd Street artwork, bags may not be (212) 570-3964. Sunday, Tuesday–Thursday December 25. assistance in English, Chinese, Education Programs entrances. Strollers permitted carried on one’s back. To 10:00a.m.– 4:30p.m. French, German, Italian, Consult Today’s Events sheet in most areas—inquire at Trie Café avoid lengthy waits in line, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, at Information Desks. Information Desks for gallery (May–October) such items should not be Russian, and Spanish. limitations. Oversized and Tuesday–Sunday brought into the Museum. jogging strollers prohibited. 10:00a.m.– 4:30p.m. Cover: Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828), George Washington (detail), 1795. Oil on canvas. Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.160) Second Floor Collections

The American Wing Ancient Near Eastern Art Chinese Art Cypriot Art Drawings and Prints European Paintings Islamic Art American painting, sculpture, Monumental Assyrian reliefs Monumental Buddhist Cesnola collection of ancient Short-term exhibitions from Masterworks by European One of the world’s most and decorative arts. Works and statues and ivories from sculpture, 5th–15th century; art from Cyprus, prehistoric the Museum’s collection, artists, including El Greco, comprehensive collections, by Cassatt, Cole, Copley, Nimrud. Sumerian sculpture, ceramics; Bronze Age jades, through Roman. Sculpture which includes European Holbein, Ingres, Jan van including ceramics, textiles, Eakins, Homer, Remington, Anatolian ivories, metalwork ritual vessels; Han through and precious metalwork; drawings from the 15th Eyck, La Tour, Mantegna, glass, metalwork, miniatures, Saint-Gaudens, Sargent, from Iran, Anatolia, Central Tang luxury objects, tomb vases, bronzes, terracottas, through the 19th century Memling, Poussin, Raphael, and period rooms from and Stuart. Tiffany glass and Asia; Achaemenid, Parthian, figurines; Song, Yuan, Ming, glass, gems and prints by Dürer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rogier van der throughout the Islamic world. silver. Period rooms. The and Sasanian silver and Qing painting, calligraphy, and Rembrandt Weyden, Rubens, Tiepolo, Main galleries closed for reno- Henry R. Luce Center for the gold vessels. Stamp and decorative arts; Garden Titian, Van Dyck, Velázquez, vation. Highlights on view Study of American Art cylinder seals Court, Ming furniture room Vermeer, and Veronese on the Great Hall Balcony

Japanese Art Korean Art Modern and Musical Instruments Nineteenth-Century European Photographs South and Southeast Works from the 3rd Works from the Three Contemporary Art (first and Instruments from all regions Paintings and Sculpture Changing exhibitions, often Asian Art millennium B.C.–present, Kingdoms period (57 B.C.– second floors, mezzanine) of the world. Courtly and European paintings, mainly drawn from the Museum’s Masterworks from India, including paintings, sculp- A.D. 668) to the Chos˘on Paintings, works on paper, traditional instruments, French, Romanticism to Post- collection, including 19th- Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, and ture, ceramics, bronzes, dynasty (1392–1910), sculpture, design, architec- including the oldest extant Impressionism. Major groups century French and British the nations of Southeast screens, lacquerware, prints, including paintings, ture, 1900–present. Balthus, piano, rare violins, harpsi- of works by Degas and Manet, photographs; American work Asia, including Cambodia, and textiles sculpture, metalwork, Boccioni, Bonnard, Matisse, chords, and a rich represen- with galleries dedicated to by Steichen, Stieglitz, Strand; Indonesia, and Thailand. and ceramics Picasso; American collection, tation of non-Western works Cézanne, Monet, Pissarro, and avant-garde photography Noteworthy Buddhist and including works by the Renoir; works by Van Gogh; between the World Wars; Hindu sculptures in stone Abstract Expressionists Rodin sculptures contemporary photographs and bronze

First Floor Collections

The American Wing Arms and Armor Arts of Africa, Oceania, The Costume Institute Egyptian Art European Decorative Arts European Sculpture American painting, sculpture, European armor, including and the Americas (ground floor) Chronological display of European furniture, ceramics Renaissance sculpture in and decorative arts. Works Renaissance parade armors. Wood sculpture from sub- Short-term exhibitions, 36,000 objects, 5th millen- and glass, metalwork and Italy, 15th–16th century; by Cassatt, Cole, Copley, Islamic armor from 15th- Saharan Africa and the Pacific including the Institute’s nium B.C.–A.D. 400. Old jewelry, horological instru- sculpture from the rest of Eakins, Homer, Remington, century Iran and Anatolia islands; Mexican stone sculp- collection, late 16th century– Kingdom tomb of Perneb, ments, and tapestries and Europe, 16th–19th century; Saint-Gaudens, Sargent, and jeweled weapons ture; objects in gold, silver, present. Fashionable dress Meketre models, Middle and textiles. Renowned architec- masterworks from Bernini to and Stuart. Tiffany glass and from the Ottoman Turkish copper, ivory, and other media, and regional costumes from New Kingdom jewelry, the tural settings and period rooms Rodin; prestigious collections silver. Period rooms. The and Mughal Indian courts. 2nd millennium B.C.–present. Europe, Asia, Africa, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut of Italian Renaissance Henry R. Luce Center for the Finest collection of Japanese Works from Benin. Pre- Americas. Consult Information statuary, and Roman Period bronzes and 18th-century Study of American Art armor outside Japan columbian gold treasury Desks for Art of Dress tours Temple of Dendur French terracotta models

Also on the first floor The Great Hall Gift Shops Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Thomas J. Watson Library Greek and Roman Art Robert Lehman Collection Medieval Art Modern and Roof Garden Petrie Court Café The Cloisters (in Fort Tryon Park) Contemporary Art (first and Acclaimed installation of Paintings, decorative arts, old Sumptuous objects in all Sculpture exhibitions from Also on the ground floor Museum for medieval art in Greek art, prehistoric master drawings. Italian materials, 4th–16th century. second floors, mezzanine) the Department of Modern northern Manhattan. Archi- The Cafeteria through classical; exceptional paintings 1300–1500; Petrus Bronze Age and Celtic art; Paintings, works on paper, Art. Open from spring tectural elements from five sculpture, vases, bronzes. Christus, Goya, El Greco, Byzantine and Early sculpture, design, architec- through mid-fall; elevator (access from first floor medieval cloisters. Renowned Roman sculpture, glass, Ingres, Hans Memling, Medieval treasures; ture, 1900–present. Balthus, access from first floor behind Medieval Hall and Unicorn tapestries. Romanesque jewelry, gems, bronzes Rembrandt, and Impressionists Romanesque and Gothic Boccioni, Bonnard, Matisse, from second floor at rear of and Gothic architectural sculp- and Post-Impressionists. sculpture and stained glass; Picasso; American collection, European Paintings galleries) ture, illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance majolica, enamels; Gothic tapestries. including works by the stained glass, metalwork, Venetian glass, bronzes See also The Cloisters Abstract Expressionists enamels, ivories, paintings W

N Frank Stella on the Roof Orascom Hotels and Development. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on Arts Humanities. Leon B. Polsky. by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. on the Arts and Humanities. the generous participation of Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid. Supported by an indemnity from Federal Council of Belgium in America, and the Flemish Government. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum Art, New York, with support provided by Fortis. Also made possible in part the National Endowment for Arts, Society of Friends Threads of Splendor The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in Metropolitan Museum Art Exhibition Credits Museum of Art, New York. Hearst Foundation. Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Berg Foundation. Ira D. W National Endowment for the Arts. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on Arts and Humanities award of Art, Atlanta, in collaboration with the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore and Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Oceanic Heritage Foundation. Organized by High Museum O

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Guided Tours Lectures Concerts Films Gallery Talks Family /Children’s Programs /Children’s Family European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1st floor Vélez Blanco Patio, 1st floor Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd floor Arms and Armor, 1st floor Drawings and Prints, 2nd floor Modern Art, 1st floor The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece The Gates of Paradise: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection Hidden in Plain Sight: The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620 A Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein, 1907–1996 One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement or any admissions desk. Recorded audio tours can be rented at the Audio Guide Desk Ask about today’s activities at the Information Desks. Free with Admission Special Exhibitions and New Installations continued from reverse allach Foundation. Antenna Audio Guide Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of Papuan Gulf made possible by the Hochberg Foundation Trust and the Gail Parker Gilbert Fund. Corporate made possible by The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece Incisive Images: Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800 Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary Bloomberg. Additional support provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples Sponsored by made possible by The Hite Foundation. Organized made possible by the William Randolph made possible by Accenture. made possible by The Miriam and made possible by The David reopening 10/30/07–1/13/08 through through through through Tapestry in the Baroque: made possible in part made possible by made possible in 9/3/07 9/3/07 9/16/07 12/2/07 10/30/07 Impressed 1 2 Floor Ground Floor First Mezzanines Second Floor Stai Escalato Elevato Di Steps A Fi Cha Wate Assistive Liste A To Low Telepho Telepho Coat Check Pa Disabled Access Rest Rooms I n First Floor First etme October – September u u r fo n u st Aid Gertrude Stein Picasso, r dio G tomated Telle i ki ch Telepho n r r n stair and elevator access access elevator and stair matio s toNextFloo Youthful Hercules gi r g Facilities n to mezzanine galleries: mezzanine to Fo g n r n u g Statio r un e w/Vol ide Portrait of NOW n ONVIEW tai n e w/Vol n n n e i n r n u access from two from access Machi sets of elevators of sets g Device me Co r Parking Entrance with Ground FloorandMezzanines Dining Room Garage u stair access stair mezzanine

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Adult Audio Guide entrance: lower and floor ground Islamic Galleries Galleries Islamic closed for renovation; renovation; for closed Islamic works on display on works Islamic on Great Hall Balcony Hall Great on opening October 23, 2007 23, October opening for Education New UrisCenter area southern and at other locations other at and closed for renovation of renovation for closed K the Americas Oceania, and Arts ofAfrica, galleries closed closed galleries and Sculpture Paintings European Century Nineteenth- “Frank StellaontheRoof”: for renovation for Modern ArtGalleries(mezzanine) A–Z stair and elevator access access elevator and stair Chinese Pavilion Modern Art

The Age of Rembrandt: 9/18/07–1/6/08 Modern Art Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Modern Art Main AccessRoute A Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor Special ExhibitionGalleries 2007 N Greek andRomanArt M C Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: 9/18/07–2/3/08 (model) The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection Q in The Metropolitan Museum of Art J Cypriot Art Ancient NearEasternArt M Modern Art, 1st floor Drawings, Prints,andPhotographs E (May–October): Roof GardenCafé Roof Gardenand P elevator access access elevator B Assyrian Reliefs and mezzanine galleries: mezzanine and Study Collection The GreekandRoman F stair and elevator access access elevator and stair Café Petrie Court Follow thedottedlineformostdirectroutethroughMuseum Impressed by Light: 9/25–12/30/07 D Decorative Arts Sculpture and European R Court European Sculpture

British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 Library Uris 81st 81st 81st Street 81st Street Entrance Entrance Entrance D, E Drawings, Prints, and Photographs David, and Special Exhibition Gallery, 2nd floor Letters correspondto The DeathofSocrates Watson Library Thomas J. some galleries galleries some closed for renovation renovation for closed ground floor: ground The Cafeteria stair and and stair elevator elevator

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Modern Photography at the Metropolitan Greek SculptureCourt F Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor Islamic Art Friday, Saturday Saturday Friday, Balcony Bar evenings Central AsianArt A

Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor 10/17/07–1/6/08 galleries floor first closed for renovation; for closed opening end of of end opening O January 2008 2008 January Now OnView: Special Exhibitions and New Installations New and Exhibitions Special OnView: Now

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Eternal Ancestors: 10/2/07–3/2/08 Master, Old some Impressionist, and and Impressionist, Modern paintings paintings Modern T The Art of the Central African Reliquary the from Main Entrance Medieval Art Main Entrance Main Tuesday through through Tuesday Balcony Café at 82nd Street 82nd at R Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor Sunday Membership Paintings European Shop Choir Screen Shop Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples 10/16/07–2/18/08 Astor Court and DecorativeArts European Sculpture Central Park Central

Y Egyptian Art, 1st floor Avenue Fifth Art Asian The GreatHall Collection

Frank Stella on the Roof through 10/28/07 galleries: floor ground stair and elevator access access elevator and stair P Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden weather permitting Guitar Spanish Baroque H ERPLTNMSU FART OF MUSEUM METROPOLITAN THE Art Korean Fifth Avenue Fifth Park Central Fifth Avenue Fifth Chinese Art Robert Lehman South AsianArt New Greek and Roman Galleries opened 4/20/07 the in view on Musical Instruments temporarily moved to moved temporarily American WingCafé Including the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court Balcony Hall Great Auditorium Rogers Grace Rainey

Greek and Roman Art, 1st floor Y Arms andArmor some galleries galleries some rest rooms rooms rest closed for for closed downstairs Bridging East and West: 9/15/07–2/10/08 renovation The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang Meeting Hall Ceiling ofJain h AmericanWing The some galleries galleries some closed for for closed I Chinese Art, 2nd floor renovation W The AmericanWing The AmericanWing Neo Rauch at the Met: para through 10/14/07 L Institute Costume The ground floor: ground Z stair and elevator and stair access access Southeast AsianArt

K Modern Art, mezzanine gallery galleries: 3rd-floor stair and elevator access access elevator and stair Galleries The SacklerWing Japanese Art Egyptian Art H access only only access from 1st-floor 1st-floor from Leutze, elevator and and elevator stairs I Drawings and Prints from Holland’s Golden Age: 9/18/07–1/6/08 access stair mezzanine mezzanine galleries: Highlights from the Collection Dinner Dress Christian Dior, The SacklerWing Dendur Temple of Washington CrossingtheDelaware O Drawings and Prints, 2nd floor Chinese Art

Incisive Images: through 11/25/07 Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800 T European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1st floor American Wing Israel SackGalleries, some some galleries galleries closed for for closed renovation renovation and mezzanine galleries: mezzanine and The HenryR.LuceCenter V stair and elevator access; access; elevator and stair consult local gallery maps maps gallery local consult Please do not touch not do Please Altar Japanese Buddhist

Excellence and Elegance: through 11/25/07 art. of works the Temple ofDendur Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court Equestrian Court 3rd-floor galleries: 3rd-floor G (third floor) Chinese Lacquer stair and elevator elevator and stair G Chinese Art, 3rd floor access North Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf through 12/2/07North Q Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, 1st floor Please do not touch not do Please

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