Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 47, 2012 - Tapa blanda

The Metropolitan Museum Journal, issued annually by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treasure, two Assyrian reliefs from the place of Sargon II, the Cloisters Annunciation by the Master of Charles of France, canvas matches in Vermeer, the life and work of Claude Simpol, the Bellange Album, Thomas Eakins' The Chess Players, letters from Costantino Ressman to William Riggs, collectors of arms and armor in nineteenth-century Paris, and the Duc de Dino Collection of Armor.

All Board members are on the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Katharine Baetjer is Curator, European Paintings; Julie Jones is Andrall E. Pearson Curator in Charge, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Curator, American Paintings; Denise Patry Leidy is Curator, Asian Art; Joan R. Mertens is Curator, Greek and Roman Art; Luke Syson is Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.