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A crown of gleaming gold dripping with almost 450 emeralds — including a 24-carat stunner said to have belonged once to an Incan emperor — made its debut this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can see it in Gallery 357, its new home.

 Talk about bling.

We could never have imagined…that we’d have the opportunity to get something quite as spectacular as we did.

The Met hit the jackpot of African-American art.

This rare and beautiful vase is a superb example of classical craftsmanship at its best.

Here was an architect working in a different medium to achieve the heights of mastery.

It takes you right to the heart of French culture and in many ways is the French equivalent of Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas,’ which is also an allegory about the relationship of painter, patron and the act of painting.

"With this picture, we have the artist at the top of his form."

"Leonard A. Lauder’s promised gift of 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger…is a monumental offering."

"How fitting that the Met's acquisition of an illustrated text by Maimonides, a religious humanist whose work drew on both classical Greek and Jewish thought, turns out to be emblematic of how museums can move us beyond easy insularity."

"We could not be happier that this rare and remarkable manuscript will be in the care of the Israel Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in perpetuity."

"In one fell swoop this puts the Met at the forefront of early-20th-century art. It is an unreproducible collection, something museum directors only dream about."

"It’s one of Trumbull’s most beautiful full-length portraits."

"The Met is really the perfect home for it, the Met has the scale for it and the greatest number of visitors."