Only the Best : Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

by Edited by Katharine Baetjer and James David Draper

• ISBN13: 9780300086485
• ISBN10: 0300086482
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-03-11
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summary

This volume and the exhibition it accompanies bring together eighty masterpieces in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. All of the works of art are illustrated in color and described in authoritative texts by the curators of the Gulbenkian Museum. These pieces, which reflect the art collector Calouste Gulbenkian's eclectic taste, include paintings by Rubens, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Turner, and Manet; silver from services created for the nobility of Russia and Western Europe; Roman medallions; Ottoman ceramics; Japanese lacquerware; jewelry by Lalique; and books and textiles from both East and West.

Table of Contents

President and Chairman's Foreword	p. VI
Director's Foreword	p. VII
Director's Foreword	p. VIII
Contributors to the Catalogue	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. X
Note to the Reader	p. XI
Calouste Gulbenkian: The Collector as Creator	p. 3
A Home for Our "Friends of a Lifetime"	p. 11
Catalogue
Roman, Islamic, Armenian, Egyptian, and Chinese Art	p. 18
Medieval and Renaissance Art	p. 32
Islamic Art	p. 53
Old Master Paintings	p. 89
Eighteenth-Century Decorative Arts	p. 109
French Sculpture	p. 128
Nineteenth-Century Painting	p. 134
Lacquer, Lalique, and Modern Bindings	p. 148
Selected Bibliography	p. 163
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