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The Ascension of Christ

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

(German, Kulmbach ca. 1480–1522 Nuremberg)

Date: 1513

Medium: Oil on wood

Accession Number: 21.84

On view in Gallery 643

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Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David

(Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1485–90

Medium: Oil on wood

Accession Number: 32.100.40bc

On view in Gallery 640

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Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter

(probably active Hamburg and Lower Saxony, 1560s–80s)

Date: ca. 1573–82

Medium: Oil on wood

Accession Number: 17.190.13–15

On view in Gallery 643

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A Walk Through The American Wing

The curators of the American Wing, with an introduction by Morrison H. Heckscher and H. Barbara Weinberg (2002)

The American Wing is a favorite destination for the Metropolitan's visitors, so I am particularly pleased that, once again, there is in print a handy and dependable guide to its treasures. The joint work of the curatorial staffs of the Departments of American Decorative Arts and American Paintings and Sculpture, the text is informed by the latest scholarship presented in an informal and accessible manner.

The American Wing is a living organism, with its collections and their means of display continually evolving. Since 1980, for example, literally hundreds of works of art have been ac...

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The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David

(Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1510–15

Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood

Accession Number: 49.7.20a–c

On view in Gallery 640

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Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Master of Monte Oliveto

(Italian, active Siena ca. 1305–35)

Date: ca. 1320

Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

Accession Number: 41.190.31bc

On view in Gallery 602

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Nineteenth-Century America: Paintings and Sculpture

Howat, John K., and Natalie Spassky, with an introduction by John K. Howat and John Wilmerding (1970)

Because the Metropolitan Museum is in great measure the creation of the American painters, sculptors, and architects prominent at the time of its founding, it is wholly appropriate that in celebration of the Centennial we announce our firm intent to develop a new and vastly enlarged American Wing, which will enable us to show the best paintings and sculpture as well as the finest of the decorative arts produced by America's artists from the seventeenth century to the present. The exhibition Nineteenth-Century America, a superb suite of formal galleries of paintings and sculpture, p...

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The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck

(Netherlandish, Maaseik ca. 1390–1441 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1435–40

Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood

Accession Number: 33.92ab

On view in Gallery 641

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque (1987)

The United States was born of European parents, and its culture reflects this rich heritage. But Americans have always been aware of the unique vision that led them to explore a new continent and establish a nation there. Historically, the "American experience" was seen largely as a political one—embodied by the institutions and outlook that distinguished the United States from her European forebears. More recently, however, Americans have become aware of the uniqueness of their artistic heritage, which, though it originated abroad, developed and flourished in ways far different from...

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The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Davidson, Marshall B., and Elizabeth Stillinger (1985)

With 524 plates, 251 in full color The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum is the home of America's most important and wide-ranging collection of the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts that have flourished in this country since our earliest days. Now for the first time the treasures of the collection are presented in a book that encompasses and celebrates the richness of our visual heritage.

Here, brilliantly photographed and discussed, are: Seventeen of the famous period rooms, authentic settings that give us a vivid sense of the changing styles of American life, from the ...