the European sculpture court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Antonio Canova's "Perseus with the Head of Medusa" stands in the European sculpture court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. Philippe de Montebello is rightly feted for leaving New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art much richer, with collections augmented by an extraordinary number of dazzling acquisitions. In the museum's much-remodeled, 2-million-square-foot building at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, he leaves a difficult legacy for his successor

The "Marble Statue of a Wounded Soldier," Roman, Antonine period, ca. A.D. 138-181, stands in the Mary and Michael Jaharis Gallery of archaic and classical Greek art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. Philippe de Montebello is rightly feted for leaving New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art much richer, with collections augmented by an extraordinary number of dazzling acquisitions. In the museum's much-remodeled, 2-million-square-foot building at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, he leaves a difficult legacy for his successor