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Painting of a landscape with mountains by Asher Brown Durant. Structures, including a church and a castle-like structure are visible in the middle distance. Gatherings of people and goats are also visible. A large tree dominates the right side of the composition. The image emphasizes the power of nature over humanity.
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Landscapes

Explore titles that uncover how artists—across centuries and continents—portray nature.

A detail of a limestone drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven. This panel depicts a grandly decorated stupa with the Buddha at its entrance, his hand raised to grant protection.
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Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India

A pioneering study of the emergence of Buddhist art in southern India, featuring vibrant photography of rare works, many published here for the first time.

A detail of Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh. The horizontal composition shows a yellow wheat field with a towering cypress tree at right. The sky is full of puffy clouds and there are mountains in the distance.
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Van Gogh's Cypresses

The first book to explore Vincent Van Gogh's fascination with the "tall and dark" cypresses that feature in some of his most iconic pictures.

Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier. An 18th century French couple wearing white wigs. Marie is standing and wearing a white dress. Antonie is sitting, wearing a black suit, and writing with a quill pen on documents sitting on a table draped with a red table cloth and covered with scientific instruments.
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Metropolitan Museum Journal

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Detail of a ceramic vessel made by a Moche artist. This detail shows the neck of the vessel which is modeled to look like a human head wearing a hat and earspools.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

Explore over six decades of the Museum’s quarterly publication.

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Roof Garden Commission Lauren Halsey
Stone Sculpture and Ritual Impersonation in Classic Veracruz Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Last Knight The Art Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I
Buddhism and Silk Reassessing a Painted Banner from Medieval Central Asia in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
About Time Fashion and Duration
Talismanic Imagery in an Ethiopian Christian Manuscript Illuminated by the Night Heron Master Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Juan de Pareja Afro Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velazquez
Women Dressing Women A Lineage of Female Fashion Design
Ode to James Van Der Zee Lorna Simpsons 9 Props Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Domesticated Partners A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020

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Edgar Degas Photographer
Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare
Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Poussin and Nature Arcadian Visions
Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 73 no 3 Winter 2016
Ancient Art in Miniature Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky
Heroic Africans Legendary Leaders Iconic Sculptures
Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection Correggio to Tiepolo
Arts Under Napoleon

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Compositional Evolution of Davids Leonidas at Thermopylae The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 13 1978
Palace for Louis XVI Jean Augustin Renard at Rambouillet Metropolitan Museum Journal v 51 2016
Myth of Marsyas Pieces of a Sculptural Jigsaw The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 16 1981
Signorellis Madonna and Child A Gift to His Daughter The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 36 2001
New Drawing by Jean Cousin the Elder for the Saint Mamas Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered 3 The Inscription The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 34 1999
Mr Devis and Mr Bull The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 45 2010
Famous Fourteenth Century Japanese Armor The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Middle Persian Inscriptions on Sasanian Silverware The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 9 1974
Rare Armor for the Gioco del Ponte The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 42 2007

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Gericaults Heroic Landscapes The Times of Day The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 48 no 3 Winter 1990 1991
Metropolitan Museums Egyptian Expedition The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 33 no 2 Summer 1975
Print in the North The Age of Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 54 no 4 Spring 1997
French Terracottas The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 49 no 3 Winter 1991 1992
French Prints in the Era of Impressionism and Symbolism The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 46 no 1 Summer 1988
Inventing a New Art Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 56 no 4 Spring 1999
Islamic Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 36 no 2 Fall 1978
Galleries of Islamic Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 6 February 1965
Liberal Arts Studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 53 no 4 Spring 1996
Marcel Breuer Bauhaus Tradition Brutalist Invention The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 74 no 1 Summer 2016

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In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Georges Seurat 1859 1891
RembrandtNot Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Aspects of Connoisseurship Volumes I and II
China Dawn of a Golden Age 200 750 AD
AngloMania Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
Candace Wheeler The Art and Enterprise of American Design 1875 1900
Royal Art of Benin The Perls Collection
When Silk Was Gold Central Asian and Chinese Textiles
Gilbert Stuart
From Queen to Empress Victorian Dress 1837 1877

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American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy Images from a Scientific Revolution adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 3 Winter 2012
Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth Century Manuscript in Facsimile
Turkmen Jewelry Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection
Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Art from Cyprus The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From Van Eyck to Bruegel Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy