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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

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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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Cubism and the Trompe l Oeil Tradition
Play It Loud Instruments of Rock and Roll
Mets German Keyed Guitar Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Louise Bourgeois Paintings
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2018 2020 Part I Antiquity to the Late Eighteenth Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v78 no 3 Winter 2021
Making The Met 1870 2020
In Pursuit of Fashion The Sandy Schreier Collection
Roof Garden Commission Alex Da Corte As Long as the Sun Lasts
Collecting the Ancient Near East at The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Africa and Byzantium

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Eighteenth Century Woman
Gifts for the Gods Images from Ancient Egyptian Temples
Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 1 Florentine School
Swords into Ploughshares
Metropolitan Jewelry
Treasures of a Lost Art Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Degas The Artists Mind
Paul Signac 1863 1935 Paintings Watercolors Drawings and Prints
From Van Eyck to Bruegel Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional

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John Brealey and the Cleaning of Paintings The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 40 2005
Myth of Marsyas Pieces of a Sculptural Jigsaw The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 16 1981
Jonathan Sturges WH Osborn and William Church Osborn A Chapter in American Art Patronage The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 43 2008
Kuh e Khwaja Iran and Its Wall Paintings The Records of Ernst Herzfeld The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 22 1987
Pair of Wheel Lock Pistols Attributed to Wolf Lucz of Mergenthal The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 22 1987
Reliefs from the Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty Reconstruction Iconography and Style The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998
Chimneypiece from Saintonge The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 25 1990
Ten Rings from the Collection of J Pierpont Morgan The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 32 1997
Sir Francis Watson at Firle Place East Sussex The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Gold Bowl Naming General Djehuty A Study of Objects and Early Egyptology The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988

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Anthony van Dyck The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 42 no 3 Winter 1984 1985
Pompeian Frescoes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 45 no 3 Winter 1987 1988
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 5 January 1967
Gold of the Americas The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 59 no 4 Spring 2002
Choirs of Angels Painting in Italian Choir Books 1300 1500 adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 66 no 3 Winter 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 28 no 4 December 1969
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1996 1997 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 55 no 2 Fall 1997
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 28 no 7 March 1970
Flowering of the French Renaissance The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 62 no 1 Summer 2004
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 5 April May 1972

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Velazquez
Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor 1156 1868
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Art of Medieval Spain AD 500 1200
Art of the Royal Court Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe
American Paradise The World of the Hudson River School
Hatshepsut From Queen to Pharaoh
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries
Pen and Parchment Drawing in the Middle Ages

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Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 4 North Italian School
Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
Tutankhamuns Funeral
Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Splendid Legacy The Havemeyer Collection
Robert Lehman Collection Volume XV European and Asian Decorative Arts
Unicorn Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Sculpture 1400 1900 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From Attila to Charlemagne Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cloisters Cross Its Art and Meaning