MICHELANGELO MAKES THE MET’S TOP 10 LIST
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman And Designer” had surpassed “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” to become the 10th most visited exhibition in the museum’s history.
The exhibition, which ended on Monday, drew 702,516 visitors over its three-month residency. The works by McQueen, a fashion designer, attracted 661,609 people between May 4 and Aug 7, 2011.
Despite its manifest success, the collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures and other works by the Renaissance maestro did not threaten the museum’s top two exhibits. Both “Treasures Of Tutankhamun”, which appeared at the museum for almost four months in 1978 and 1979, and Mona Lisa, which was up for less than a month in 1963, broke the 1 million visitor mark.
The record of the Tutankhamun exhibition is all the more impressive because the museum was usually only open six days a week between 1971 and 2013.