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Celebrating The Met's Birthday

Explore titles on Museum history this month as The Met turns 153.

An abstract painting in browns, greens, yellows, and pinks. Abstract figures in the middle of the composition suggest the Death and the Maiden trope common in European art..
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Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work.

a Detail of Diego Velazquez's Portrait of Juan de Pareja.
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Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain.

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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

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French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution
Juan de Pareja Afro Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velazquez
Modern Times British Prints 1913 1939
Mets German Keyed Guitar Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Karl Lagerfeld A Line of Beauty
Talismanic Imagery in an Ethiopian Christian Manuscript Illuminated by the Night Heron Master Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Spain 1000 1200 Art at the Frontiers of Faith The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 2 Fall 2021
Live Arts at The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 1 Summer 2022
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 5 The Renaissance in the North
European Sculpture 1400 1900 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
World between Empires A Picture Album
Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle
Handbook of the Pierpont Morgan Wing
Degas 1834 1917
Live Arts at The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 1 Summer 2022
Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors 843 1261
India Art and Culture 1300 1900
American Sculpture A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Divine Images in Stone and Bronze South India Chola Dynasty c 850 1280 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 4 1971
Chimneypiece from Saintonge The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 25 1990
Gretry Encore A Portrait Drawing by Francois Dumont The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 9 1974
Room of Splendor and Generosity from Ottoman Damascus The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 32 1997
Treasures from Ancient Kiev in The Metropolitan Museum and Dumbarton Oaks The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 32 1997
Valerius Maximus in a Fourteenth Century French Translation An Illuminated Leaf The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 18 1983
Tumuli at Se Girdan A Preliminary Report The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 2 1969
Epitome of National Disgrace A Painting Illuminating Song Jin Diplomatic Relations The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 45 2010
Entombment of Christ Addenda The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 8 1973
Beam Compass by Christoph Trechsler the Elder and the Origin of the Micrometer Screw The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 3 November 1966
James J Rorimer The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 1 Part II Summer 1966
Pastel Portraits Images of Eighteenth Century Europe adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 68 no 4 Spring 2011
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
Ca Dolfin Tiepolos The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 55 no 4 Spring 1998
African Origin of Civilization The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 4 Spring 2022
North of the Apennines Sixteenth Century Italian Painting in Lombardy and Emilia Romagna The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 60 no 4 Spring 2003
Arte del mar Art of the Early Caribbean The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 3 Winter 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 27 no 5 January 1969
Dangerous Beauty Medusa in Classical Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 3 Winter 2018

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Bernini Sculpting in Clay
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Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD
Byzantium and Islam Age of Transition
RembrandtNot Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Aspects of Connoisseurship Volumes I and II
Year 1200 A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Li Kung lins Classic of Filial Piety
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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
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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
Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 4 North Italian School
Robert Lehman Collection Volume XV European and Asian Decorative Arts