Rogues' gallery
Subtitle: the secret history of the moguls and the money that made the Metropolitan Museum
By: Michael Gross.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780767924887
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History; Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Filled with the juicy details of the lives of the powerful players who made the Metropolitan Museum of Art what it is today, "Rogue's Gallery" delivers the unauthorized history of America's wealthiest and arguably the world's greatest art museum.
Table of contents: title: Archaeologist: Luigi Palma di Cesnola, 1870-1904; title: Capitalist: J. Pierpont Morgan, 1904-1912; title: Philanthropist: John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1912-1938; title: Catalyst: Robert Moses, 1938-1960; title: Exhibitionist: Thomas P.F. Hoving, 1960-1976; title: Arrivistes: Jane and Annette Engelhard, 1976-2008.