Question: How does Robert Lehman's collection at the Met differ from other departments?
About the article "Metropolitan Museum of Art", section "Robert Lehman Collection".

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On the passing of banker Robert Lehman in 1969, his Foundation donated 2,600 works of art to the museum.
Housed in the "Robert Lehman Wing," the museum refers to the collection as "one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States".
To emphasize the personal nature of the Robert Lehman Collection, the Met housed the collection in a special set of galleries which evoked the interior of Lehman's richly decorated townhouse; this intentional separation of the Collection as a "museum within the museum" met with mixed criticism and approval at the time, though the acquisition of the collection was seen as a coup for the Met.
Unlike other departments at the Met, the Robert Lehman collection does not concentrate on a specific style or period of art; rather, it reflects Lehman's personal interests.
Lehman the collector concentrated heavily on paintings of the Italian Renaissance, particularly the Sienese school.
Paintings in the collection include masterpieces by Botticelli and Domenico Veneziano, as well as works by a significant number of Spanish painters, El Greco and Goya among them.
Lehman's collection of drawings by the Old Masters, featuring works by Rembrandt and Dürer, is particularly valuable for its breadth and quality.
Princeton University Press has documented the massive collection in a multi-volume book series published as "The Robert Lehman Collection Catalogues".
Very famous collections that are now dispersed include the Borghese Collection and Farnese collection in Rome, and the Orleans Collection in Paris, mostly sold in London.
When this happens, it can be a large loss to those interested in art as the initial vision of the collector is lost.
The Princely Family of Liechtenstein have works by such artists as Hals, Raphael, Rembrandt and Van Dyck, a collection containing some 1,600 works of art, but were unable to show them since 1945 when they were smuggled out of Nazi Germany.
The works were finally displayed in the Liechtenstein Museum after nearly 60 years with most in storage.
The important collection of the Thyssen family, mostly kept in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which settled in Madrid in 1992, was bought to the Spanish state.
Only an exhibited part, the collection of Carmen Cervera, widow of the late Baron Thyssen, remains private but exhibited separately in the museum.
Many collections were left to the public in some form, and are now museums, or the nucleus of a museum's collection.
Most museums are formed around one or more formerly private collection acquired as a whole.
Major examples where few or no additions have been made include the Wallace Collection and Sir John Soane's Museum in London, the Frick Collection and Morgan Library in New York, The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon Portugal.
Other collections remain complete but are merged into larger collections in museums.
Some important 19th/20th examples are: The Waddesdon Bequest of Renaissance objects was bequeathed to the British Museum, where it is displayed in its own room (a condition of the bequest), as is the Percival David Collection of Chinese porcelain.
Many other bequests or purchased collections are split up within the museum's collection.
Sergei Shchukin, was an important Russian art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
His collection is now divided between the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
The Charles Lang Freer Collection became an important part of The Smithsonian—the Freer Gallery of Art.
When the banker Robert Lehman died in 1969, his foundation donated 2,600 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Housed in the "Robert Lehman Wing," the museum refers to the collection as "one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States".
To emphasize the personal nature of the Robert Lehman Collection, the Met housed the collection in a special set of galleries which evoked the interior of Lehman's richly decorated townhouse; this intentional separation of the Collection as a "museum within the museum" met with mixed criticism and approval at the time, though the acquisition of the collection was seen as a coup for the Met.
Unlike other departments at the Met, the Robert Lehman collection does not concentrate on a specific style or period of art; rather, it reflects Lehman's personal interests.  
"The Last Days of Lehman Brothers" summarizes the events that occurred over the weekend preceding Monday, 15 September 2008, when Lehman declared bankruptcy.
Investment bank Lehman Brothers is in trouble after a turbulent six months in which their real estate investments have lost billions of dollars, causing steep drops in Lehman's stock.
Lehman's boss, Dick Fuld (Corey Johnson), who brought the firm through other crises, is himself growing desperate.
Fuld's plan to spin off the company's bad assets into a separate company does not satisfy investors, and Lehman stock drops by 75% in one week.
Fuld's only remaining solution is to have Lehman acquired.
Both Bank of America and Barclay Bank are interested in purchasing the firm but are dissuaded because so much of Lehman's assets are "toxic", worthless.
Lehman's problems have put the US government in a delicate position.
The collapse of a firm of Lehman's size would have catastrophic economic repercussions well beyond the firm itself.
Because there is no political support for a government bailout of the firm, the government turns to Lehman's competitors for help.
Late on the afternoon of 12 September, a Friday, the leaders of the top investment banks on Wall Street, Lehman's competitors, are summoned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
American Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warns the incredulous group that Lehman is not too big to fail and that there will be no bailout using public money.
Instead, Paulson cajoles the bank heads to work out some joint plan among themselves to relieve Lehman of its toxic assets, warning them that the steep price they would pay to save Lehman would be easily outweighed by the cost of its failure.
He also intimidates the bank heads by reminding them that they too will soon need help.
A solution must be found before trading opens in Japan on Monday morning.
By Friday evening, Bank of America begins stalling the deal, noting that Lehman's valuation puts them "underwater" by billions of dollars.
Fuld must now depend on Barclays, and he is clearly growing more desperate.
Retaining hopes that Bank of America will change its mind, Fuld has the firm's attorney Harvey R. Miller (Richard Durden) begin drafting a bankruptcy petition.
As Paulson's group searches for alternatives, Lehman's assets are subject to "valuation" by analysts from other firms.
The analysts spend the night poring over boxes of paperwork.
Calculation is made extremely difficult because much of the assets are based on collateralized debt obligation (CDO) instruments whose value is difficult to assess.
Discussion continue at the Fed throughout Saturday with little result.
John Thain of Merrill Lynch (Ben Daniels) pulls out of Paulson's bailout group, telling Paulson that his company is in discussions with Bank of America.
As they are no longer committed to Lehman, Bank of America is free to consider acquiring Merrill Lynch, which desperately needs the deal.
Since the prospect of acquisition makes it less likely that Merrill will need help from the Fed, Thain has little incentive to continue participating in Paulson's discussions.
As Thain leaves, he learns from Paulson of the Fed's plans to bail out AIG, whose credit default swaps insure half of the western world's banking system.
By Sunday morning, Fuld receives word that Barclays has agreed to acquire Lehman Brothers, saving it.
Jubilation is short-lived.
Under British law, Barclays cannot guarantee Lehman's debts until its own shareholders vote on the matter, and that will not happen until Tuesday – beyond the Monday morning deadline.
Paulson reiterates that the Fed will not "back-stop" Lehman, not even for the two days it will take for Barclays's shareholders to vote.
With no chance of a buyout, Lehman has no choice but to file for bankruptcy.
Lehman's CFO signs the petition just minutes before the midnight deadline.
A devastated Fuld leaves his office as Lehman's now unemployed staff cleans out their desks.
A voice-over notes that the Fed "did" bailout firms that faced collapse after Lehman. 
Jay Lehman, an area businessman, founded Lehman's Hardware (now called "Lehman's") in 1955 with the intent of selling non-electrical products to the Amish community.
He began the business by purchasing a combination hardware store and gasoline filling station that had been in business since 1915.
The store did a modest business, with a mild boost from tourism, until the 1973 oil crisis.
As domestic supplies of oil began to dwindle, people began to look for low-tech equipment to help them deal with the shortages.
According to Jay Lehman, "The oil embargo put us on the map."
The oil crisis secured the store's reputation, with each new disaster or potential disaster bringing in new customers.
Other events that increased Lehman's customer base include the Year 2000 problem, the September 11, 2001, attacks, and the northeast blackout of 2003.
"As a result of this change, there has been a marked shift in the demographic makeup of Lehman's customers.
In the early years, the Amish community accounted for 95 percent of Lehman's sales.
Now it makes up between 6 and 8 percent.
Besides the Amish, tourists, and jittery citizens, the store is a resource for homesteaders, missionaries, environmentalists, survivalists, and doctors in developing countries, to purchase items needed for simple living.
Lehman's also counts among its customers the American Red Cross, Peace Corps volunteers, and Hollywood set designers also use the store to find historically accurate items for decorating period sets.
At age 83, Lehman still serves as chairman of the business and comes to the store every day to interact with customers.
The business side is now handled by his son Galen, who started working at the store in his teens and is now its President.
Jay Lehman's daughter, Glenda Lehman Ervin, currently serves as the store's Vice President of Marketing after working many years at a large corporation. 
As the store did business, it often found it difficult to find suppliers of certain items as manufacturers quit making the obsolete technology or went out of business.
This forced Lehman's to look other places to develop new suppliers or become their own supplier.
In the case of cast iron wood-burning parlor stoves, the Amish only accept the product in black, so Lehman's arranges special manufacturer runs, typically buying a three-year supply at a time.
Lehman's also deals in replacement parts for many of their products, tracking them down from individual manufacturers, or at times reverse engineering them.
When there is a lack of manufacturers for needed parts, they often obtain the casting parts and hire out the work, or do the manufacturing themselves, frequently without regard to profit.