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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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Art for the Millions American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
Apollo s Muse The Moon in the Age of Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications 2022
New Evidence for the Origins of a Royal Copper Head from the Ancient Near East Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
In America A Lexicon of Fashion
Hear Me Now The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina
African Origin of Civilization The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 4 Spring 2022
Mets German Keyed Guitar Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Sevres Elephant Garniture and the Politics of Dispersal during the French Revolution Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Aztecs in the Empire City The People without History in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021

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Secular Spirit Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages
James F Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs
Childe Hassam American Impressionist
Cameo Appearances adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 65 no 4 Spring 2008
Man and the Horse An Illustrated History of Equestrian Apparel
Nishapur Glass of the Early Islamic Period
Bernini Sculpting in Clay
Indian Court Painting 16th 19th Century
Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo
Tapestry in the Baroque Threads of Splendor

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Cutting up Berchems Watteaus and Audrans A Lacca Povera Secretary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 31 1996
Thomas Morans Colburns Butte South Utah Forgotten Landmark of a Lost Friendship The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 44 2009
Wilton Montmorency Armor An Italian Armor for Henry VIII The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 38 2003
Lapis Lazuli Medallion of Cosimo I de Medici The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 13 1978
On the Provenance of Louis Tocques Sketch of Jean Marc Nattier The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 48 2013
Giustiniani Bacchus and Francois Duquesnoy The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 40 2005
Some Early Monuments from Busiris in the Egyptian Delta The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 11 1976
Modest Sevres Vase for a King The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Carpaccios Young Knight in a Landscape Christian Champion and Guardian of Liberty The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 18 1983
Johann Ignaz Bendl Sculptor and Medalist The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 26 1991

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Ca Dolfin Tiepolos The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 55 no 4 Spring 1998
Winslow Homer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 39 no 4 Spring 1982
German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 47 no 4 Spring 1990
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 1 Part I Summer 1966
Thomas Eakins and The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 52 no 3 Winter 1994 1995
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 22 no 6 February 1964
Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 31 no 3 Spring 1973
Washington Crossing the Delaware Restoring an American Masterpiece adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 2 Fall 2011
Unicorn Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 32 no 1 1973 1974
Marcel Breuer Bauhaus Tradition Brutalist Invention The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 74 no 1 Summer 2016

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American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art including the Leonard A Lauder Collection
Portraits by Ingres Image of an Epoch
Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor 1156 1868
Prague The Crown of Bohemia 1347 1437
Photographs of Edouard Baldus
Painters of Reality The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
Age of Napoleon Costume from Revolution to Empire 1789 1815
Indian Court Painting 16th 19th Century
Flowers Underfoot Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era
Art of the Korean Renaissance 1400 1600

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Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Washington Crossing the Delaware Restoring an American Masterpiece adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 2 Fall 2011
Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
Light on Stone Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art a Photographic Essay
Ancient Art from Cyprus The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1575 1875
Notable Acquisitions 1982 1983
Wisdom Embodied Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Etruscan Art in The Metropolitan Museum