New York’s finest treasures, including five centuries of European Masterpieces, are now on display in Queensland, Australia in the most significant exhibition of international art the country has received in recent decades. The traditional masterpieces exhibition features portraits, still-life, and landscapes by Cézanne, Rembrandt, Renoir, Vermeer, van Gogh and others from the Renaissance to twentieth-century post-impressionism direct from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. As the only show The Met is touring in 2021, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) was a feat. “It’s one of the finest collections of European painting, which rarely leaves permanent display in New York,” the premier said in a statement. “At a time when we cannot visit New York ourselves, for four months, visitors from all over Australia will come to Brisbane to see a little bit of New York City’s Metropolitan …