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artists & participants
Fra Angelico,
Francois Boucher,
Caravaggio,
Paul Cezanne,
Gustave Courbet,
Lucas Cranach der Ältere,
Francisco de Goya,
Georges de La Tour,
Edgar Degas,
El Greco,
Paul Gauguin,
Edouard Manet,
Claude Monet,
Nicolas Poussin,
Raffael,
Rembrandt van Rijn,
Auguste Renoir,
Peter Paul Rubens,
Tizian,
William Turner,
Vincent van Gogh,
Diego Velazquez,
Jan Vermeer,
Antoine Watteau
press release
February 9 (Wed.) – May 30 (Mon.), 2022
European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, founded in 1870, possesses a comprehensive collection of cultural artifacts from every corner of the world. The collection spans over 5,000 years, from prehistoric times to the present day. This exhibition presents 65 great works, 46 of which are being shown in Japan for the first time, representing gems of art selected from the collection of more than 2,500 items in the possession of the Department of European Paintings, one of the Museum's 17 curatorial departments. It brings to Japan in a single group masterpieces from celebrated artists, the works of whom constitute the colorful pageant of Western painting over the 500 years from the fifteenth-century early Renaissance to the nineteenth-century Post-Impressionists. From Fra Angelico, Raphael, Cranach, Titian, and El Greco, to Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Velázquez, Poussin, Watteau, and Boucher, on to Goya, Turner, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cézanne, some of the greatest treasures that are the pride of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be displayed for the enjoyment of visitors. The exhibition represents an opportunity that we hope all art lovers will take advantage of.