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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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Cornish Celebration Presentation Plaque by Augustus Saint Gaudens Newly Identified Sources Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Making Marvels Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
How to Read Buddhist Art
Roof Garden Commission Lauren Halsey
Last Knight A Picture Album
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Passignano Not Leoni A New Attribution for A Cardinals Procession Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Renaissance of Etching
Arte del mar Art of the Early Caribbean The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 3 Winter 2020
Camp Notes on Fashion

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American Rococo 1750 1775 Elegance in Ornament
American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art including the Leonard A Lauder Collection
Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume I Tablets Cones and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia BC
Re Used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Waist Not The Migration of the Waist 1800 1960
Italian Renaissance Frames
Nishapur Metalwork of the Early Islamic Period
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Dangerous Liaisons Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

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Elector of Brandenburgs Hunting Sword The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988
Two Fragments of a Renaissance Bronze Zodiac Frieze The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 42 2007
On the Cityscape of the Merode Altarpiece The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 11 1976
Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals Metropolitan Museum Journal v 53 2018
Study of the Works of Gassan Sadakazu in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 5 1972
Surviving Oeuvre of Girolamo Zenti The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 7 1973
Sparse Trees and Pavilion a Fan Painting by Wang Meng ca 1308 1385 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 45 2010
Ennion Master of Roman Glass Further Thoughts Metropolitan Museum Journal v 50 2015
Proto Elamite Silver Figurine in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 3 1970
Eighteenth century Find of Four Late Bronze Age Gold Discs near Enniscorthy County Wexford Ireland The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 10 1975

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Genius of Andrea Mantegna adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 67 no 2 Fall 2009
Art Treasures of Turkey The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 26 no 5 January 1968
Anthony van Dyck The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 42 no 3 Winter 1984 1985
Netsuke The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 38 no 2 Fall 1980
African Origin of Civilization The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 4 Spring 2022
Ca Dolfin Tiepolos The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 55 no 4 Spring 1998
Goya and the Altamira Family The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 71 no 4 Spring 2014
Rembrandt and His Circle Drawings and Prints The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 64 no 1 Summer 2006
French Prints in the Era of Impressionism and Symbolism The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 46 no 1 Summer 1988
Thomas Hart Bentons America Today The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 72 no 3 Winter 2015

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Great Bronze Age of China An Exhibition from The Peoples Republic of China
Portraits by Ingres Image of an Epoch
American Paradise The World of the Hudson River School
Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD
Art of the First Cities The Third Millennium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus
In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Age of Spirituality Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century
Giambattista Tiepolo 1696 1770
Hatshepsut From Queen to Pharaoh
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Beyond Representation Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Eighth Fourteenth Century
European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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From Van Eyck to Bruegel Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chess East and West Past and Present A Selection from the Gustavus A Pfeiffer Collection
Robert Lehman Collection Vol 10 Italian Majolica
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
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Li Kung lins Classic of Filial Piety
Emperors Album Images of Mughal India