Exquisite ... What emerges is a beautiful tale about beauty. It is also a tale about grief, balancing solitude and comradeship, and finding joy in both the exalted and the mundane.
In the pantheon of winning books about the Met, it is right up there ... Bringley offers an unusual, insider's vantage point on this vast palace of art ... it's Bringley's reflections on dozens of individual paintings, photographs, sculptures, and ancient artifacts that elevate this memoir into a paean to the power of art.
