Sentence examples for paintings collection from inspiring English sources

To those familiar with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's astonishing reinstallation of its European paintings collection, 634 is sacred space: the display of Dutch old masters assembled by the department store magnate Benjamin Altman.

The 1973 reconsideration had downgraded a full 15 percent of what was then the museum's European paintings collection, including works that had been attributed to El Greco, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

"For most institutions, this one included, the options to build your paintings collection in a really significant way are limited," said Malcolm Daniel, the Metropolitan's associate curator of photography.

The Trustees and staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art mourn the death of Mario Modestini, a generous benefactor whose gifts of a Chiari painting of Bathsheba and, with his wife, a Granacci Madonna enhanced the Musem's European paintings collection.

The paintings collection, obviously truncated in more limited space, has enough of the museum's favorites (Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon," Cézanne's "Male Bather") to placate traditionalists, but what's interesting is that the tilt of the display seems more toward the recent past than it was on 53rd Street, a harbinger, perhaps, of the museum's future emphases.

In 1991 he was made director general of the Bavarian State Paintings Collections, although he was still director of the institute.

But it has happened only because the Velázquez's home, the Galleria Estense in Modena, which has one of the best small paintings collections in Italy, is still closed because of damage from the severe earthquakes that struck the region last year.

Along with his library, paintings, and collection of perfumes, there are tanks of coloured water in front of the windows, filtering the natural light to suit the ambience.

In addition to paintings their collection at La Pausa included 300 pieces of Chinese export porcelain, more than 150 silver objects, Medieval ironwork and Arabic and Spanish carpets.

Sidney's family is graced with her many original watercolor paintings and collections of "Easy Thoughts".

The V&A and the British Library are helping to digitize Indian archives and paintings from collections in India and Britain.