After Three Decades as Director, Philippe de Montebello Announces Retirement from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
News from the Met: Montebello retirement and a loan of Ancient Greek vases
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(New York, January 8, 2008)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Philippe de Montebello-whose long and storied career at the Museum has spanned nearly a third of the institution’s entire history-will retire after more than 30 years as its eighth, and longest-serving, Director. Mr. de Montebello, who first joined the staff as a curatorial assistant in 1963, became Director in 1977, and assumed the additional role of Chief Executive Officer in 1998, plans to step down by December 31, 2008.
Three Spectacular Vases Lent by Italy to Metropolitan Museum for Four Years Replace Euphronios Krater
As a result of the agreement negotiated by Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Ministero per I Beni Culturali e Ambientali, the Republic of Italy is lending the Metropolitan Museum three outstanding ancient Greek vases for a period of four years. Supplementing the Laconian drinking cup already on loan (since November 2006), the three additional pieces – a jug in the shape of a young woman’s head (end of sixth century B.C.); a cup signed by the potter Euxitheos and the painter Oltos, depicting the assembly of gods on Mount Olympos (515-510 B.C.); and a vase of the fourth century B.C. showing Oedipus solving the riddle of the sphinx – will go on view among related works in the Museum’s Greek and Roman Galleries on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. These loans come to the Met in exchange for the return of the Euphronios krater to Italy. The krater will remain on view at the Metropolitan Museum through Sunday, January 13, 2008.
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