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The Chinese Garden Court
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The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Excerpted from Elizabeth Hammer, Nature within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
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The Cuxa Cloister
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Realvideo
Quicktime with captions
The Cuxa Cloister, mid-12th century
French or Spanish; From the Abbey of
Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa (modern France)
Marble; 90 ft. x 78 ft. (2,743 x 2,377 cm)
The Cloisters Collection, 1925
(25.120.398,.399,.452)
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The Daguerreotype Process
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The Daguerreotype Process
(4 minutes, silent)
Courtesy of Py-Films, Boulogne-Billancourt, and the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
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Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine (Kitano Tenjin Engi)
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Quicktime with captions
Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine (Kitano Tenjin Engi), Kamakura period (1185–1333), 13th century
Unidentified artist
Japan
Handscroll; ink and color on paper;
11 3/4 in. x 28 ft. 3 3/4 in. (29.8 x 863 cm)
Fletcher Fund, 1925 (25.224a-e)
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Statue of a Kouros (youth)
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Realvideo
Quicktime with captions
Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590-580 B.C.; Archaic
Greek, Attic
Naxian marble; H. without plinth 76 in. (193 cm)
Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1)
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Summer Mountains
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Quicktime with captions
Summer Mountains, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th century
Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056), China
Handscroll; ink and pale color on silk;
17 7/8 x 45 3/8 in. (45.4 x 115.3 cm)
Ex coll.: C.C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973 (1973.120.1)
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Votive Panels
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Quicktime
Votive Panels, Kushan dynasty, ca. 3rd century A.D.
Bactria (northern Afghanistan)
Terracotta and gouache; H. (each) 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm)
Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 2000 (2000.42.2)
Gift of Isao Kurita, 2000 (2000.42.4)
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Grand Piano, 1720
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Grand Piano,
1720
Made by Bartolomeo Cristofori (Italian, 1655–1731)
Florence, Italy
Various materials; Total H. 34 in. (86.5 cm)
The Crosby brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.1219)
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Harpsichord, 1666
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Harpsichord, 1666
Girolamo Zenti
Rome, Italy
Wood and various materials; L. of inner instrument 93 in. (236.2 cm), W. 33 1/4 in. (84.5 cm), D. 7 3/4 in. (19.6 cm)
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.1220)
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Kora (Harp-Lute), ca. 1960
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Kora (Harp-Lute), ca. 1960
Made by Mamadou Kouyaté
Senegambia
Gourd, wood, leather, metal; Total H. 45 5/8 in. (115.8 cm), Max. W. 20 5/8 in. (52.5 cm), D. of body from belly to back 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm), H. of bridge 6 3/4 in. (17 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1975 (1975.59)
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Spinetta with Case, 1540
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Spinetta with Case, 1540
Unknown Maker
Venice, Italy
Wood and various other materials; 57 1/4 x 19 in. (145.4 x 48.3 cm)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953 (53.6ab)
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Violin, 1693
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Violin,
1693
Made by Antonio Stradivari (Italian, 1644–1737)
Cremona, Italy
Wood; L. 23 1/4 in. (59.4 cm), W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Gift of George Gould, 1955 (55.86a-c)
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