Experience thousands of years of art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Experiencing art of past millennia in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City;...
Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Transcript
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NARRATOR: Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 5,000 years' worth of masterworks from every civilization, every culture all under one roof.
PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO: When you study history, you are reading about events, but you are not experiencing them. When you look at a great Chinese painting of the Ming dynasty, you are in a sense in the Ming dynasty. You've—you've—you've taken a time machine. The picture is of that time—of its time and of our time. It—it's a magical experience.
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NARRATOR: Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 5,000 years' worth of masterworks from every civilization, every culture all under one roof.
PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO: When you study history, you are reading about events, but you are not experiencing them. When you look at a great Chinese painting of the Ming dynasty, you are in a sense in the Ming dynasty. You've—you've—you've taken a time machine. The picture is of that time—of its time and of our time. It—it's a magical experience.
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