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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

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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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Surrealism Beyond Borders
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Te Maori New Precedents for Indigenous Art at The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Blessing of Unicorns The Paris and Cloisters Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 1 Summer 2020
Time of Crisis The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 2 Fall 2020
Atea Nature and Divinity in Polynesia The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v76 no 3 Winter 2019
Carmontelles Telltale Marks and Materials Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
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Vatican Collections The Papacy and Art
Washington Crossing the Delaware Restoring an American Masterpiece adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 69 no 2 Fall 2011
Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Japanese Lacquer 1600 1900 Selections from the Charles A Greeneld Collection

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Seven Shields of Behaim New Evidence The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 30 1995
Court Jews Silver Cup The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 43 2008
Benjamin Altman Bequest The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 3 1970
Popular Imagery in a Fifteenth Century Burgundian Creche The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Model of a Basilisk by Petrus de Arena The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 24 1989
Japanned Cabinet in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 1920 1984 1985
John Frederick Kensetts Point of View in Lake George 1869 A Correction The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 48 2013
Jacopo della Nave or Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 7 1973
Three Graces on a Roman Relief Mirror The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988
Ancient Sources for Tullio Lombardo s Adam Metropolitan Museum Journal v 49 2014

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Path of Nature French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection 1785 1850 adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 70 no 3 Winter 2013
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 27 no 4 December 1968
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 28 no 7 March 1970
Tibet and India Buddhist Traditions and Transformations adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 71 no 3 Winter 2014
Ancient Near Eastern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 41 no 4 Spring 1984
Live Arts at The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 1 Summer 2022
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 5 April May 1972
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1991 1992 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 50 no 2 Fall 1992
New British Galleries The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 4 Spring 2020
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Glory of Byzantium Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era AD 843 1261
Royal Art of Benin The Perls Collection
Year 1200 A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Flowers Underfoot Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era
Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD
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Photographs of Edouard Baldus
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Robert Lehman Collection Vol 10 Italian Majolica
Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art Science and Technology
Notable Acquisitions 1982 1983
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