The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings

In a world where you can pay $20 for an informational magazine at the local book store, the fact that a quality item like this can be delivered for the price paid is a miracle. This is a heavy, hardcover book that weighs nearly nine pounds, and is of magnificent quality with thick paper. It celebrates the wonderful collection at the Met, and belongs in every enthusiast's collection. Surprisingly great.

This book is inspiring and high quality. Better than I expected. Heavy weight book, it has 500 paintings listed and displayed in a beautiful and enjoyable layout. Feels like being at the museum at home. If you have doubts, don’t! It’s worth it!

Awesome book fora great price!

great album for a present

Great art book. Great service.

The heirloom-quality book is laid out so you can sit back and enjoy the journey of "walking" through its pages of breathtaking plates, one after the other, unencumbered or distracted by verbiage (other than identifiers) which is (thoughtfully) best enjoyed separately in delightfully detailed format. Indeed, the next best thing to an in-person visit to one of 5th Avenue's -- nay Manhattan's! -- most prized possessions: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Excellent-quality printing on substantial-quality paper from Hong Kong, long-recognized for their superior contribution to fine print work. The book itself is amply sized so as to offer images that are in turn generously sized which deliver nuances that might otherwise be compromised; be forewarned the "price" for that brand of satisfaction is a quite heftily-weighted book. Nevertheless. Whether you're a bonafide museum lover or finally quenching your curiosity of what all the hubbub is about, this extraordinary compilation will soothingly reaffirm and/or introduce you to the world-renowned collections housed at the one & only MMA.

Highly recommend

I bought this for my Grams as a birthday gift. She absolutely loves it! She spends hours looking at it. The book itself is huge and all of the full page pictures are of amazing quality. I'm so happy I got it for her because she loves it and I do too