The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art

It was a cold day in March when my Art Professor arranged a trip to the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a class project, I will never forget that day. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was constructed in April 13, 1870, by Architect Richard Morris, Calvert Vaux and Jacob Mould and open to the public on February 20, 1872, it was redesigned in 1910 by Mckim, Mead and White. It is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan New York City according to www.wikipedia.com  it is the largest museum in the United States which measured more than 2,000,000 square feet and the second most visited museum. On that day we did not honor the privileged to visit the entire museum it was too immense.

You have to ascend over thirty steps to enter the exquisite monument. The entrance of the building exterior is composed of classical antique and ancient Egypt sculptures with and extensive collection of American and modern art, the columns are Greek  and Corinthian style with the offshoot characterized by slender flutes, the columns also entails Doric, Ionic and Tuscan order with Asian, Byzantine, African and Islamic designed. At the hallway desk there were two individuals that provided us with tickets, being that we were on our class project we showed our Bronx Community College Identification card and paid a donation. Inside the museum possessed a tremendous amount of lighting with high ceiling, it contains over two million of art work that is divided into seventeen department and two Library that you can accessed during your visit there.

The most prominent and renowned art are enclosed on exhibition within the museum such as Jan Van Eyck, Crucifixion and the Last Judgement, 1430-40, Robert Campin, The Altarpiece, 1425-1428, Edouard Manet, The Dead Christ with Angels, 1864.  

I was fascinated with the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses statue, standing in the presents and been lectured of what had taken place in history and looking at the demonstration of their work of art is phenomenon. Their unique way of how they performed a burial for their follow members, they  buried in the desert because they thought that they will live again in the afterlife, they wrap their bodies them in cloth and buried them with their favorite item or with food, individuals that were wealthy were given a more formal burial. The Crucified of Christ also caught my attention it was crafted with a wet drapery that wrap around him it looked so authentic the beard that covered his face and the crown on his head was well sculpture I detected muscles throughout his body. Visiting the museum provides me the opportunity to educate myself on the history of Ancient time.  

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The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.wikipedia.org, web September 22, 2017