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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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Rayyane TabetAlien Property The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 2 Fall 2019
Watercolors of the Acropolis Emile Gillieron in Athens The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v76 no 4 Spring 2019
Mets German Keyed Guitar Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
Ode to James Van Der Zee Lorna Simpsons 9 Props Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Last Knight The Art Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I
Jacob Lawrence s Work Theme 1945 46 Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
Van Goghs Cypresses
Philippe Auguste Hennequins Portrait Drawing of Sir Sidney Smith in the Temple Prison Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Gosford Wellhead An Ancient Roman Masterpiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 3 Winter 2023

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How Prints Look Photographs with a Commentary
Ancient Art in Miniature Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky
American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection
Nishapur Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period
Sung and Yuan Paintings
Search for Alexander Supplement to the Catalogue
Roman Portraits Sculptures in Stone and Bronze in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographs of Edouard Baldus
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300 1450
Waist Not The Migration of the Waist 1800 1960

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Sir Francis Watson at Firle Place East Sussex The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Icon Contact Relic Souvenir The Virgin Eleousa Micromosaic Icon at The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Portrait Bust of a Young Lady of the Time of Justinian The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 1 1968
Moche Spatula The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 18 1983
Johann Ignaz Bendl Sculptor and Medalist The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 26 1991
Pair of Sphinxes in the Linsky Collection Reattributed The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 21 1986
Statue of Amenemope em hat The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 8 1973
Theory about the Early History of the Cloisters Apocalypse The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 6 1972
Attic White Ground Cups A Special Class of Vases The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 9 1974
Reign of Magots and Pagods The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

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Art of the Aegean Bronze Age The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 4 Spring 2012
Centennial Album Drawings Prints and Photographs The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v74 no 3 Winter 2017
Egyptian Wall Paintings The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Collection of Facsimiles adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 36 no 4 Spring 1979
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 26 no 3 November 1967
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 24 no 6 February 1966
Francois Gerard Portraiture Scandal and the Art of Power in Napoleonic France The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 71 no 1 Summer 2013
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 10 June 1965
Medieval Church Treasuries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 43 no 3 Winter 1985 1986
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1991 1992 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 50 no 2 Fall 1992
Flowering of the French Renaissance The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 62 no 1 Summer 2004

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Pen and Parchment Drawing in the Middle Ages
Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD
Hatshepsut From Queen to Pharaoh
From Van Eyck to Bruegel Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christian Dior
Art of Medieval Spain AD 500 1200
Warriors of the Himalayas Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries
Photographs of Edouard Baldus
In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement

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Tutankhamuns Funeral
Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth Century Manuscript in Facsimile
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 1 Egypt and the Ancient Near East
European Post Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volumes I and II
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 2 A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885
New Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries
Robert Lehman Collection Vol 10 Italian Majolica