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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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Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2018 2020 Part II Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v78 no 4 Spring 2021
Bacchante and Infant Faun Tradition Controversy and Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 1 Summer 2019
Passignano Not Leoni A New Attribution for A Cardinals Procession Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Fictions of Emancipation Carpeauxs Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
Atea Nature and Divinity in Polynesia The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v76 no 3 Winter 2019
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Cezanne to Van Gogh The Collection of Doctor Gachet
Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 6 Europe in the Age of Monarchy
Color and Shape in American Indian Art
Japanese Lacquer 1600 1900 Selections from the Charles A Greeneld Collection
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Nishapur Glass of the Early Islamic Period
Japanese Art Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection
Pyramid of Senwosret I
East Asian Lacquer The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection
Robert Lehman Collection Volume XV European and Asian Decorative Arts

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Nicolas Trigault SJ A Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 38 2003
Some Heraldic Fragments Found at Castle MontfortStarkenberg in 1926 and the Arms of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Hoplites Horses and a Comic Chorus The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 41 2006
Mans Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth to Tenth Century A Conservators Report The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 36 2001
Construction of Some Empire Silver The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 16 1981
Rock Crystal Watch with a Cross Beat Escapement The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 15 1980
Study by Greuze for Broken Eggs The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 17 1982
Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier and Two Revolutions The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Francesco Granacci and Some Questions of Identity The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Note on Abraham Banishing Hagar by Giambattista Tiepolo The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 24 no 8 April 1966
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2006 2007 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 65 no 2 Fall 2007
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
Language of the Birds The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 9 May 1967
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 24 no 1 Summer 1965
Velez Blanco Patio An Italian Renaissance Monument From Spain The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 4 December 1964
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2014 2016
Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 49 no 1 Summer 1991
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2001 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 60 no 2 Fall 2002
Egyptian Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 41 no 3 Winter 1983 1984

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Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries
Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420 1500
Gilbert Stuart
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Bernini Sculpting in Clay
Tapestry in the Renaissance Art and Magnificence
Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty
American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art including the Leonard A Lauder Collection
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Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
Turkmen Jewelry Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection
Emperors Album Images of Mughal India
American Pastels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japanese Art from the Gerry 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
Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 4 North Italian School
Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy
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