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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's encyclopedic collection includes more than three million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture and is considered one of the finest in the world. This screen saver celebrates twelve treasures from the Met's collection.
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Facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Statuette of a Hippopotamus, ca. 19911783 B.C.E.; Dynasty 12; Middle Kingdom
Egyptian; Middle Egypt, Meir
Faience
Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 (17.9.1)
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Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670), 1650
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 15991660)
Oil on canvas
Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (18761967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971 (1971.86)
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Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 166067
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 16321675)
Oil on canvas
Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.21)
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Oleanders, 1888
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890)
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, 1962 (62.24)
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The Singer in Green, ca. 1884
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 18341917)
Pastel on light blue laid paper
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.7)
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Angel, 18th century
Salvatore di Franco (Italian)
Terracotta, wood, silk, and silver
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964 (64.164.5ac)
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Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450440 B.C.
Greek
Parian marble
Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.45)
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King Sahure and a Nome God, Fifth Dynasty, reign of Sahure
Egyptian
Gneiss
Rogers Fund, 1918 (18.2.4)
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Boating, 1874
Édouard Manet (French, 18321883)
Oil on canvas
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.115)
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Pendant Mask: Iyoba, 16th century
Edo, court of Benin; Nigeria
Ivory, iron, copper
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323)
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The Armor of George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland, ca. 158085
Made in the Royal Workshops
English (Greenwich)
Steel, etched, blued, and gilded
Munsey Fund, 1932 (32.130.6)
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