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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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Domesticated Partners A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Monumental Journey The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
Malachite Networks The Demidov and Medici Vases Torcheres in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
Art = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History
Alice Neel People Come First
French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution
How to Read European Decorative Arts
Play It Loud A Picture Album
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Blessing of Unicorns The Paris and Cloisters Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 1 Summer 2020

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Lotus Transcendent Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection
World War I and the Visual Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 2 Fall 2017
Year 1200 A Background Survey
Landscapes Clear and Radiant The Art of Wang Hui 1632 1717
Dangerous Liaisons Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Our New Clothes Acquisitions of the 1990s
Vatican Spirit and Art of Christian Rome
Pierre Bonnard The Late Still Lifes and Interiors
Nishapur Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration
American Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Evolution of Composite Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 12 1977
Medal for the Czar 1888 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 32 1997
Pen case and Candlestick Two Sources for the Development of Persian Inlaid Metalwork The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988
Malachite Networks The Demidov and Medici Vases Torcheres in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
Elusive Shape within the Fisted Hands of Egyptian Statues The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 10 1975
Photographic Portraiture in West Africa Notes from In and Out of the Studio Metropolitan Museum Journal v 51 2016
Domesticated Partners A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Treatment of Tullio Lombardo s Adam A New Approach to the Conservation of Monumental Marble Sculpture Metropolitan Museum Journal v 49 2014
Ivory Fan Handle from Nimrud The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 44 2009
Inscription in Manets The Dead Christ with Angels The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 16 1981

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George Grey Barnard The Cloisters and The Abbaye The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 37 no 1 Summer 1979
Medieval Bestiary The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 44 no 1 Summer 1986
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 29 no 4 December 1970
Tibet and India Buddhist Traditions and Transformations adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 71 no 3 Winter 2014
Spain 1000 1200 Art at the Frontiers of Faith The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 2 Fall 2021
Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 73 no 3 Winter 2016
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2002 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 61 no 2 Fall 2003
Colonial Silver In The American Wing The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 41 no 1 Summer 1983
Art Treasures of Turkey The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 26 no 5 January 1968
Containing the Divine Ancient Peruvian Pots The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 4 Spring 2023

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Heroic Africans Legendary Leaders Iconic Sculptures
World of Khubilai Khan Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Glory of Byzantium Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era AD 843 1261
RembrandtNot Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Aspects of Connoisseurship Volumes I and II
Glitter and Doom German Portraits from the 1920s
Man Myth and Sensual Pleasures Jan Gossarts Renaissance
China Dawn of a Golden Age 200 750 AD
Pierre Bonnard The Late Still Lifes and Interiors
Bernini Sculpting in Clay
Splendor of Dresden Five Centuries of Art Collecting

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Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Turkmen Jewelry Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection
How to Read Chinese Paintings
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1575 1875
Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 3 Sienese and Central Italian Schools
American Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces of European Painting 1800 1920 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Greece Cyprus Etruria Rome