Still today, you can find in there paintings of well-known artists that date back to 1853.

The only way to find good paintings, he says, is to look among the works of lesser-known masters who escaped the 19th-century restoration frenzy.

Philippine authorities have found yachts, paintings and a few hundred million dollars.

Upstairs one finds 19th-century Japanese paintings of birds and flowers.

You may find this and other paintings at the Metropolitan disturbing, maybe off-putting, at first.

"I try to find paintings where we might find Ovid's text," she says.

We find paintings of this artist painted on plywood, tin, silk and pig leather.

In secular music, we don't know what was done, but you find paintings showing both men and women singing, with and without instruments.

I find abstract paintings such as those by Picasso kind of stupid.

Within the building you will find majestic paintings, sculptures, and other works of fine art that depict various periods in American history.