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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

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Camp Notes on Fashion
Blessing of Unicorns The Paris and Cloisters Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 1 Summer 2020
Talismanic Imagery in an Ethiopian Christian Manuscript Illuminated by the Night Heron Master Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Collecting the Ancient Near East at The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Gifts of Art The Mets 150th Anniversary
Modern Times British Prints 1913 1939
Malachite Networks The Demidov and Medici Vases Torcheres in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
Bacchante and Infant Faun Tradition Controversy and Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 1 Summer 2019
Surrealism Beyond Borders
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 1 Summer 2021

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Leonardo da Vinci Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library Windsor Castle
Scepter of Egypt A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 2 The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom 1675 1080 BC
John Vanderlyns Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
Notable Acquisitions 1980 81
Hatshepsut From Queen to Pharaoh
Before Yesterday We Could Fly An Afrofuturist Period Room The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 3 Winter 2022
Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC
Origins of Impressionism
Augustus Saint Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 66 no 4 Spring 2009
American Impressionism and Realism The Painting of Modern Life 1885 1915

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Gothic Doorway from Moutiers Saint Jean The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 13 1978
Dating a Book by Its Cover An Early Seventeenth Century Dutch Psalter The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 35 2000
Prince Karl I of Liechtensteins Pietre Dure Tabletop The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 22 1987
Horizontal Handled Mirrors East and West The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 31 1996
John Haberles A Bachelor s Drawer Censorship Geologic Time and Truth Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Crusaders Sword Concerning the Effigy of Jean dAlluye The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 26 1991
Thomas Morans Colburns Butte South Utah Forgotten Landmark of a Lost Friendship The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 44 2009
New Attribution of Three Sevres Vases The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Epitaph of Anna van Nieuwenhove The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 27 1992
Group of Hellenistic Silver Objects in the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 38 2003

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Age of Rembrandt Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 65 no 1 Summer 2007
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1994 1995 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 53 no 2 Fall 1995
Inventing a New Art Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 56 no 4 Spring 1999
Frank Lloyd Wright at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 40 no 2 Fall 1982
Augustus Saint Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 66 no 4 Spring 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 5 January 1965
Ca Dolfin Tiepolos The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 55 no 4 Spring 1998
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 6 February 1967
Changing Image Studies in Paintings Conservation The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 51 no 3 Winter 1993 1994
Before Yesterday We Could Fly An Afrofuturist Period Room The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 3 Winter 2022

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Pen and Parchment Drawing in the Middle Ages
American Paradise The World of the Hudson River School
Al Andalus The Art of Islamic Spain
Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor 1156 1868
Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty
In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Year 1200 A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Silk Was Gold Central Asian and Chinese Textiles
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Robert Lehman Collection Volume XV European and Asian Decorative Arts
Wisdom Embodied Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Art from Cyprus The Cesnola Collection 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
Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1986 1987
American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol I Early Colonial Period The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles