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[Image: Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) "The Crucifixion" ca. (1420-23) Tempera on wood, gold ground, 63.8 x 48.3cm Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 / 43.98.5 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]

European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Finished

Artists

Fra Angelico, Raphael, Dieric Bouts, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), El Greco, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), Pieter Claesz, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Marie Denise Villers, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet et al.

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.

Schedule

Feb 9 (Wed) 2022-May 30 (Mon) 2022

Opening Hours Information

Hours	10:00-18:00 Closes at 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Closed	Tuesday Open on a public holiday Tuesday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays.
Notice	Open on May 3.

Fee

Adults ¥2100, University Students ¥1400, High School Students ¥1000, Junior High School Students and Under free.

Website

https://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2021/met/