All the Beauty in the World
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: ix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
The grand staircase -- Windows -- A Pietà -- Of millions of years -- Further shores -- Flesh and blood -- Cloisters -- Sentinels -- Kouros -- The veteran -- Unfinished -- Days' work -- As much as I can carry.
Subjects:
Bringley, Patrick.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Biography.
Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York.
Bringley, Patrick.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees -- Biography.
Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York.
ISBN:
9781982163303
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226).