Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Two Differing Portraits 1
5. Chapter I The Birth of Dynastic Finance 11
6. Chapter II The Esthetic Education of an Art Critic 41
7. Chapter III The Metropolitan Museum Acquisitions and Expertise 79
8. Chapter IV The Metropolitan and the Conflicts of a New Vision 113
9. Chapter V Morgan and the Building of an Encyclopedic Museum 137
10. Chapter VI Growth of an Art Expert Fry’s Radical Vision 167
11. Coda Fry and Modern Theories Taste, Teaching, and Social Values 195
12. Notes 215
13. Bibliography 233
14. Index 237