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Watercolor painting of a Black man in a suit and looking at his reflection in the mirror painted using various shades of blue.
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Celebrating Women's History Month

Explore titles that highlight female leaders, artists, and creators throughout history.

Maya painting on a drinking cup showing the rain god Chahk. In his right hand, he grasps the wooden handle of a stone axe, and his left hand holds a stone.
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Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art

An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period.

A Cubist painting of a acoustic guitar on a table with newspaper and wallpaper collage elements.
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Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art

An exploration of artists' central role in nineteenth-century Denmark’s dramatic cultural, political, and philosophical transformation.

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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Portrait of a woman of Indian descent looking off to the right. She wears silver hair ornaments, gold beaded necklaces, and a a flowing white garment.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

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Assyria to Iberia Art and Culture in the Iron Age
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Bowes Family of Streatlam Castle and Gibside and Its Collections The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998
Modest Sevres Vase for a King The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
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New Identities of Some Old Hispanic Silver The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 29 1994
Pair of Sphinxes in the Linsky Collection Reattributed The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 21 1986
Prints and People The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 3 1970
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Landscape Drawings by Pietro da Cortona The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 39 2004
Some Notes on The Pardon in Brittany by Dagnan Bouveret The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 35 2000
Sword and Dagger Pommels Associated with the Crusades Part I The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 46 2011

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Gold of the Americas The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 59 no 4 Spring 2002
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2012 2014 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 72 no 2 Fall 2014
Japanese Bamboo Art The Abbey Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v74 no 4 Spring 2017
Nicolas Poussin The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 50 no 3 Winter 1992 1993
Medieval Church Treasuries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 43 no 3 Winter 1985 1986
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Silent Poetry Chinese Paintings in the Douglas Dillon Galleries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 39 no 3 Winter 1981 1982
French Prints in the Era of Impressionism and Symbolism The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 46 no 1 Summer 1988
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China Dawn of a Golden Age 200 750 AD
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Echoing Images Couples in African Sculpture
Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD
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Caspar David Friedrich Moonwatchers
American Paradise The World of the Hudson River School
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Notable Acquisitions 1982 1983
Robert Lehman Collection Vol 10 Italian Majolica
Splendid Legacy The Havemeyer Collection
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American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 2 A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885
Tutankhamuns Funeral
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