波士顿美术博物馆以收藏东方艺术品著称于世，现藏有中国和日本绘画5000余幅。其中有相当数量的宋、元时期名画，如保存完好的唐张萱《捣练图》，宋代摹本、宋徽宗《五色鹦鹉》等。其他绘画藏品也十分丰富，有格列柯、委拉斯贵兹、提香、丁托莱托、罗梭等人的作品，有伦勃朗、鲁本斯、普桑、夏尔丹、库尔贝、马奈、德加、华托、雷诺阿、保罗·塞尚、梵·高的作品。

 该馆共设有美国装饰艺术和雕塑、亚洲艺术、古典艺术、埃及和古代近东艺术、欧洲装饰艺术和雕塑、绘画艺术、印刷、素描和照片、纺织、20世纪艺术9个部门178个展室。其中亚洲艺术品的收藏最为丰富，堪与世界各大美术馆相媲美。不仅有中国、日本、朝鲜等国的青铜、陶瓷、绘画、书法、纺织品、雕塑等上下五千年的各类艺术瑰宝，如著名中国古画唐阎立本《历代帝王图》、宋徽宗摹唐张萱《捣练图》、明张宏《句曲松风图》等，还有亚洲各地的伊斯兰教、印度教和佛教艺术的珍品。

 波士顿美术博物馆

在1870年，哈佛大学波士顿图书馆和马萨诸塞理工学院为展出它们收藏的艺术品而倡议筹建这座博物馆。美国建国100周年纪念日1876年7月4日正式于科普利广场开馆。迁至现址的新馆于1909年11月15日对外开放。1981年由著名建筑师贝聿铭设计的主楼西翼落成并开放。

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 波士顿美术博物馆

波士顿美术博物馆的馆藏物品非常丰富，有很多藏品是世界上独一无二的真迹。展品有按地理位置分布的，也有按展品类别分布的。从地理位置上分，有亚洲馆、非洲馆、美洲馆、欧洲馆等。按展品类别分，有古典艺术、乐器、当代艺术、欧洲绘画等。由于展馆众多，展品丰富，如果每件展品都要细看一番，那就是在博物馆呆上三天，也许就看不完全部展品。所以，只有波士顿当地市民才有可能对每件展品都品味一番。对大多数游客来说，全都只能走马观花地浏览一下，或是对自己感兴趣的展馆进行重点参观。

古典艺术品是该馆的重要藏品，包括中国古代书画精品，古希腊、古罗马、伊特拉斯坎的青铜、陶瓷、雕塑、钱币、宝石、金银器、玻璃等。该馆还拥有世界上除法国外最大的C.莫奈绘画馆和世界第一流的19世纪美国艺术馆。它的埃及古王国实物收藏在世界上占有重要地位。1927年该馆设立附属艺术学校。1979年该馆在波士顿市中心法纳尔大厦商场设立了分馆。该馆定期出版学术杂志《美术博物馆馆刊》。

 波士顿美术博物馆入口是由福斯特事务所设计的，耗资1000万美元。这是30年来在StateStreet公司资助下首次使用这个入口。

波士顿美术博物馆

Fenway入口是一座漂亮的带廊柱的门廊，位于MFA的北边。它是原来的两座主入口之一，另外一个主入口面向亨廷顿路，是由建筑师GuyLowell在1907年的博物馆总体规划中设计的。

福斯特事务所的改造工程包括扩大楼梯的宽度，在两边增加坡道，利用鹿岛花岗岩来配合现有立面的色彩和纹理。

补充景观布置的是“DayandNight”雕塑（2008年完成）。这是一对铜质的婴儿头部雕塑，一个睁着眼一个闭着眼，是由著名的西班牙现代艺术家AntonioLópezGarcía设计的。每一个雕塑高8英尺，重1.6吨，它们是最近才从亨廷顿入口处搬过来的。

 资深些的业内人士也许听说过卢斯蒂齐，一位16世纪的雕塑家，达芬奇的助手之一。不过，无论多么资深和业内，听说过卢斯蒂齐名下一个叫作《施洗者圣约翰》的釉面赤陶作品的几率也接近于零，在2007年1月24日之前有机会一睹这一杰作的可能性更是微乎其微。这作品湮没藏家手中已近4百年，只是最近方才重露水面。

在波士顿美术博物馆的这个展上，与之命运类似的作品实在不少，有些从未作为整体公之于众，有些对于专业学者也是前所未见，例如多纳泰罗的《云中圣母》———可爱的浮雕作品；又如Giambolagna被誉为天下第一的小型人物铜像，在美国实为罕见的真人大小的16世纪大理石雕塑《圣约瑟夫》。除了冷门僻作，展品中也有已然声

波士顿美术博物馆

名远播的大师级作品，例如安提科的《Cleopatra半身像》、各种材质的浮雕，还有卢卡·德拉·卢比亚、费埃索、波兰诺等意大利雕塑史上响当当的名字。

值得一提的是，由于展品年代悠远，有些又久经封存，对它们的固定、清洁和保;就成为了展品之外的又一看点，博物馆这次很是图志，挑战了保存古作的极限。

 在美国的波士顿美术博物馆，展出了多达1200余幅中国著名的绘画精品。据统计，流失到海外的国宝级别的唐代卷轴画有20余张。此外，敦煌17窟收藏的经卷、诗画、书画，时代历经盛唐、晚唐、五代到北宋，以英国和法国

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收藏最多。流失的宋代卷轴画也有二三百张；元代近200张；明代名画约有8000余件；清代约有1.2万余件。该馆主要展出了众多流失海外的绘画精品中的少数几件，通过这次展览可以了解到关于国宝绘画的宝贵价值与在海外的坎坷经历。

 2001年波士顿美术博物馆展出了“东方的转变：中国陶瓷”。79件陶瓷作品中有新石器时代的谷仓，因为在一个广口陶罐的顶部有一个人类头部的造型。在当时的条件下，无疑是非常珍贵的。除了史前的陶罐，还有一些早期玻璃制品，看起来五光十色，流丽缤纷，虽然是18世纪为皇家专用，清朝皇帝深受西方的影响，在紫禁城内建立工作室，鼓励艺术家学习西方艺术。

 借着中国嘉德第十一期四季拍卖会强劲势头的东风，“来自波士顿美术馆中文古籍”拍卖专场高潮不断，连创佳绩，全场成交率达到100%，最终总成交额高达635万元。

此次波士顿美术馆藏中文古籍在中国嘉德的拍卖，是继2004年3月和5月中国嘉德接受波士顿美术馆委托成功拍卖其馆藏瓷器后的又一次盛事。全场中文古籍均属该馆馆藏，自上世纪初购于中国。

由于保存设施完善，条件良好，典籍的“品相”极为干净清爽，有相当部分从未被人披阅。极佳的品相和丰富的文化内涵得到了买家的热烈追捧，场内竞价数次达到白热化。明万句元年(1573)倪炳刻本的宋代李棠等奉敕撰太平御览一千卷(12函120册)为少见的明版扬州诗局本，且保存完好，现场买家一路追捧，最终以56万元的高价成交。丛书和地方志更是本场拍卖的亮点，备受推崇，一套清康熙四十六年(1707)武英殿刻本的张玉书等奉敕编的御定佩文斋咏物诗选四百八十六卷(8函64册)，卷数齐全，品相完好，最终拍出39.2万元的高价。

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2004年3月份，中国嘉德经过调查研究市场需求并反复论证，首次在四季拍卖会上推出古籍善本专场，立即获得广大藏家的热烈追捧，总成交额达529.2万元。在此基础上，本届四季拍卖会上又专门辟出“来自波士顿美术馆中文古籍”拍卖专场，并取得了骄人的成绩。由此可见，在中国嘉德大力推动下，古籍善本市场已日渐成熟，藏家对古籍善本的专业了解不断提高，市场价格上升趋势明显。

该专场不仅使藏家看到了真正的博物馆馆藏之品，也为国内博物馆和图书馆提供了一种全新思路。目前，国内博物馆和图书馆古籍善本的保存工作步履维艰，存量巨大、保存条件差及经费不足是当前的主要问题。而在国外，由于重新确定或调整馆藏方向，将部分馆藏品委托拍卖用于调整藏品结构属于常规操作。波士顿博物馆将部分馆藏中文古籍委托拍卖，既调整了藏品结构又实现了资金周转，更为国内博物馆和图书馆提供了一个很好的借鉴。

 In 1870, the Boston Library of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiated the construction of the museum to exhibit their collections of art. On July 4, 1876, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States officially opened in Copley Square. The new museum was opened on November 15, 1909.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is famous for its collection of Oriental art. It now has more than 5,000 Chinese and Japanese paintings.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is famous for its collection of Oriental art. It now has more than 5,000 Chinese and Japanese paintings. Among them, there are quite a number of famous paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasty, such as Tang Zhangxuan's "Naming and Practicing Pictures", Song Dynasty copies, and Song Huizong's "Five-color Parrots" and so on. Other collections of paintings are also very rich, including the works of Greco, Venezuez, Titian, Dintoretto, Rousseau, Rembrandt, Rubens, Pusan, Chardin, Kulby, Manet, Degas, Watto, Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Van Gogh.

The Museum has 178 exhibition rooms in 9 departments: American decorative art and sculpture, Asian art, classical art, Egyptian and ancient Near East art, European decorative art and sculpture, painting art, printing, sketch and photograph, textile and 20th century art. Among them, the collection of Asian art works is the most abundant, comparable to the major art galleries in the world. There are not only bronze, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, textiles, sculptures and other artistic treasures of up to 5000 years in China, Japan, Korea and other countries, such as the famous ancient Chinese painting Tang Yan's copy of "Diagrams of Emperors of All Dynasties", Song Huizong's imitation of Tang Zhangxuan's "Tampering Diagrams", Ming Zhanghong's "Diagrams of Songfeng in Juqu", but also Israelis in various parts of Asia. Treasures of Orchid, Hinduism and Buddhist art.

In 1870, the Boston Library of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiated the construction of the museum to exhibit their collections of art. The 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States officially opened in Copley Square on July 4, 1876. The new museum was opened on November 15, 1909. In 1981, the West Wing of the main building, designed by the famous architect I. M. Pei, was completed and opened.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a very rich collection, many of which are unique in the world. Exhibits are distributed by geographical location, and also by exhibit category. Geographically, there are Asian Pavilion, African Pavilion, American Pavilion, European Pavilion and so on. According to the categories of exhibits, there are classical art, musical instruments, contemporary art, European painting and so on. Because there are many pavilions and many exhibits, if you have to take a close look at each exhibit, it is to stay in the museum for three days, maybe you can't see all the exhibits. So it's only the local Bostonians who have a chance to taste every exhibit. For most tourists, they can only browse around or focus on the pavilions they are interested in.

Classical art is an important collection of the museum, including ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy, bronze, ceramics, sculpture, coins, precious stones, gold and silver, glass and so on. It also has the world's largest C. Monet Art Gallery besides France and the world's first-class 19th century American Art Museum. Its collection of ancient Egyptian kingdoms occupies an important position in the world. In 1927, the museum established an affiliated art school. In 1979, it opened a branch at the Farner Tower Mall in downtown Boston. The Museum regularly publishes the academic journal Art Museum Journal.

The entrance to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was designed by Foster's and cost $10 million. This is the first time in 30 years that StateStreet has used the entrance with funding.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Fenway Entrance is a beautiful portico with pillars, located in the north of MFA. It was one of the original two main entrances, another facing Huntington Road, desgned by architect Guy Lowell in the museum master plan of 1907.

Foster's renovation project includes expanding the width of stairs, adding ramps on both sides, and using Kashima granite to match the color and texture of existing facades.

The supplementary landscape arrangement is the "Dayand Night" sculpture (completed in 2008). This is a pair of copper baby head sculptures, one with eyes open and one with eyes closed, designed by the famous Spanish modern artist Antonio Lpez Garca. Each sculpture is 8 feet tall and weighs 1.6 tons. They were recently moved from the Huntington entrance.

Senior insiders may have heard of Lustizi, a 16th century sculptor and one of Da Vinci's assistants. However, no matter how senior and professional, the chances of hearing Lustizi's next glazed terra-cotta work, St. John the Baptist, are close to zero, and the chances of having a chance to see it before January 24, 2007 are even slighter. This work has been in the hands of Tibetans for nearly 400 years, but only recently has it reappeared.

At this exhibition of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, there are many works similar to their fate, some of which have never been made public as a whole, and some of which have never been seen before by professional scholars, such as Donatello's "The Virgin of the Cloud" - lovely relief works, and Giambolagna's reputation as the world's first small figure copper. Like St. Joseph, a rare life-size 16th century marble sculpture in the United States. In addition to the obscure works, there are already voices in the exhibits.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Famous masterpieces, such as Antico's "Cleopatra bust", various materials of relief, as well as Luca Della Lubia, Feeso, Polano and other Italian sculpture history of famous names.

It is worth mentioning that because of the long history of exhibits, some of them have been sealed for a long time, so they are fixed, clean and preserved. It has become another point of view besides exhibits. Museums are very graphic this time, which challenges the limit of preservation of ancient works.

At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the United States, more than 1200 famous Chinese paintings were exhibited. According to statistics, there are more than 20 scroll paintings of Tang Dynasty lost to overseas national treasures. In addition, the volumes, poems, paintings, calligraphy and paintings collected in Cave 17 of Dunhuang went through the flourishing Tang Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, with Britain and France as examples.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The largest collection. There are also 2300 lost scroll paintings in Song Dynasty, nearly 200 in Yuan Dynasty, more than 8000 famous paintings in Ming Dynasty and more than 120,000 in Qing Dynasty. The Museum mainly exhibits a few of the many exquisite paintings lost abroad. Through this exhibition, we can learn about the valuable value of national treasure paintings and the frustrating experience abroad.