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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications 2022
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Apollo s Muse The Moon in the Age of Photography
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Oceania The Shape of Time
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2018 2020 Part II Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v78 no 4 Spring 2021
Carmontelles Telltale Marks and Materials Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Facsimiles Artworks and Real Things Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
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
New Evidence for the Origins of a Royal Copper Head from the Ancient Near East Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022

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Turning Point Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth Century Japan
Year 1200 A Symposium
Royal Abbey of Saint Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger 1122 1151
Age of Caravaggio
Art of Central Africa Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde
Daumier Drawings
Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
Grand Design Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry
Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 5 The Renaissance in the North
Gosford Wellhead An Ancient Roman Masterpiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 3 Winter 2023

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Three Nurnberg Compassmacher Hans Troschel the Elder Hans Troschel the Younger and David Beringer The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 2 1969
Adam by Tullio Lombardo Metropolitan Museum Journal v 49 2014
Image as Word A Study of Rebus Play in Song Painting 960 1279 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 34 1999
Ernst Herzfeld Joseph Upton and the Artaxerxes Phialai Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Theory about the Early History of the Cloisters Apocalypse The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 6 1972
Skulpturen und andere Arbeiten des Battista Lorenzi The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 7 1973
Pierre Auguste Cots The Storm The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 14 1979
Ovids Metamorphoses A Gobelins Tapestry Series The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988
Darien Gold Pendants of Ancient Colombia and the Isthmus The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 43 2008
Literate Potter A Tradition of Incised Signatures on Attic Vases The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 26 1991

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Turners Whaling Pictures The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 73 no 4 Spring 2016
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 28 no 6 February 1970
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1992 1993 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 51 no 2 Fall 1993
American Ephemera The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 34 no 1 Spring 1976
Immortals and Sages Paintings from Ryoanji Temple The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 51 no 1 Summer 1993
Chinese Garden Court adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 38 no 3 Winter 1980 1981
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 7 March 1967
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 5 April May 1972
Gosford Wellhead An Ancient Roman Masterpiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 3 Winter 2023
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 6 June July 1972

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Echoing Images Couples in African Sculpture
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Regarding Warhol Sixty Artists Fifty Years
Portraits by Ingres Image of an Epoch
Giambattista Tiepolo 1696 1770
Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977 2008
Glitter and Doom German Portraits from the 1920s
India Art and Culture 1300 1900
From Queen to Empress Victorian Dress 1837 1877

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American Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition
Light on Stone Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art a Photographic Essay
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Turkmen Jewelry Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection
Li Kung lins Classic of Filial Piety
Tutankhamuns Funeral
Oceania Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy Images from a Scientific Revolution adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 3 Winter 2012
American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art