The Metropolitan Museum of Art

to Seventh Century, 1979; The Glory of Byzantium: Art andCulture of the Middle Byzantine Era, a.d. 843 – 1261, 1997;and Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261 – 1557), 2004.The Department of European Paintings developed manyretrospective exhibitions of great artists during this period, eachof which was documented by a catalogue showing almost allexhibition works in color. The most noteworthy of thesecatalogues include Manet, 1832 – 1883, 1983; Van Gogh in Arles,1984; The Age of Caravaggio, 1985; François Boucher, 1703 – 1770,1986; Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers, 1986; Degas, 1988;Velázquez, 1989; and Georges Seurat, 1859 – 1891, 1991.The Department of Asian Art also issued a series ofimportant publications, among them The Great Bronze Age ofChina: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China, 1980,and Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National PalaceMuseum, Taipei, 1996. Indeed, all departments of the Museumpublished extensively during this period.In the second century a.d., Galen, the author of more thanfive hundred titles, compiled a classified bibliography of hisworks. Albert TenEyck Gardner emulated this endeavor inregard to the Museum’s publications in his 1965 volume, andhis initiative is continued herein.John P. O’NeillEditor in Chief andGeneral Manager of Publications