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Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.

This marble kouros (youth) statue marked the grave of an Athenian aristocrat. The statue's rigid stance, formal pose, and geometric forms are based on a formula used by Greek sculptors throughout the sixth century B.C.

Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 B.C.; Archaic
Greek, Attic
Naxian marble; H. without plinth 76 in. (193.04 cm)

Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1)

See Greek and Roman Art for more information about this object.
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Walking Dress, ca. 1860

Helmet (Zukinnari Kabuto), 16th century; Momoyama period

Lake George, 1869

Cup with frieze of gazelles, early 1st millennium B.C.

Side chair (from a set), 1815–20

A Stallion, album leaf, late 16th century; Safavid

Relief: king and eunuch attendant, 883–859 B.C.; Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II

Transverse Flute in D Flat, 1813

Portrait of Margaret of Austria, ca. 1490

Design for a Wall Monument, ca. 1490

Portrait of a Man and Woman at a Casement, ca. 1440

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1921

Plate, 18th century (1755–60)

Jar with frieze of bulls, 8th–7th century B.C.

Sankh, 19th century

Kosode, Edo period (1615–1868), first half 17th century


Relief of Archers, ca. 2551–2494 B.C.E.; Dynasty 4, reigns of Khufu to Khafre; Old Kingdom

The Annunciation, ca. 1485

Bacchanal, ca. 1635–1636

Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, 1820

Presentation Vase, 1824

The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux, ca. 1324–28

Jacket, ca. 1616

Encyclopedie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, 1751–1765

Bowl, late 12th–early 13th century; Seljuq

Untitled (triptych), 1946

Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 B.C.; Archaic

Tournament Shield (Targe), ca. 1450

Saltcellar, mid-13th century

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931

Baby Figure, 12th–9th century B.C.E.; Olmec


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