Highlighted in these pages-and in an accompanying exhibition that allows the public to savor many of the works at first hand-are more than 300 purchases and gifts. During the ensuing years, under the keen eye and connoisseurship of the chairman and his curatorial staff, and supported enthusiastically by the new administration, the department's holdings grew considerably. By then, the Museum's two collections of medieval art jointly encompassed outstanding examples of metalwork, illuminated manuscripts, stained-glass panels, limestone and wood sculptures, textiles, and jewelry (both secular and religious), these items dating from the second century B.C. Wixom its Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. The years 19 were auspicious ones for The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Philippe de Montebello became its Director and William D.
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