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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

Five decades of Met Publications on art history, available to read, download and/or search for free.

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A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. A free, copyrighted, scholarly database for the use of researchers, students and the public.