The Metropolitan museum of art New York (Great museums of the world)

In 128 superb new color photographs, the metropolitan museum displays the heritage of 5000 years of the world’s art.
The metropolitan museum, one of the
great treasure houses of art the largest in the western hemisphere is of such magnitude and variety that it is impossible to do it justice within the covers of a single volume.
Yet to turn the pages of this book with its exquisite color reproductions is to experience the astonishing range and quality of the museum’s holdings.
Many of these masterpieces are associated with a long line of princely patrons Morgan, Marquand, Altman, Bache, Havemeyer, Lewisohn, Harkness, and others who gave or bequeathed whole collections to the museum, culminating in the fabulous Robert Lehman collection, an aggregation of such scope that it remains a marvelous repository of masterpieces within the museum.