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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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In America A Lexicon of Fashion
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Aztecs in the Empire City The People without History in The Met Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Carmontelles Telltale Marks and Materials Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
About Time Fashion and Duration
Live Arts at The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 1 Summer 2022
Ernst Herzfeld Joseph Upton and the Artaxerxes Phialai Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
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Dangerous Beauty Medusa in Classical Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 3 Winter 2018
American Stories Paintings of Everyday Life 1765 1915
Royal Art of Benin The Perls Collection
Watteau Music and Theater
British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1575 1875
Early Netherlandish Painting at the Crossroads A Critical Look at Current Methodologies
China Trade Porcelain Patterns of Exchange
Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III
Sultans of the South Arts of Indias Deccan Courts 1323 1687
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Buying Pictures for New York The Founding Purchase of 1871 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 39 2004
About Mada The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 40 2005
Appendix Notes on the Restoration of the Behaim Shields The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 30 1995
Unknown Work by Pierre Puget The Deyde Funerary Chapel in Montpellier Cathedral The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 29 1994
Assyrian Clay Hands in the Architecture of the Ancient Near East Metropolitan Museum Journal v 52 2017
Two Etruscan Vases and Edgar Allen Poe The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 48 2013
Carmontelles Telltale Marks and Materials Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020
Fragmentary Egyptian Head from Heliopolis The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 30 1995
Mr Devis and Mr Bull The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 45 2010
New Identities of Some Old Hispanic Silver The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 29 1994

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 24 no 6 February 1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 2 October November 1971
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 27 no 6 February 1969
German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 47 no 4 Spring 1990
Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 35 no 3 Winter 1977 1978
Illusion in Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 22 no 5 January 1964
Dangerous Beauty Medusa in Classical Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 3 Winter 2018
Genius of Andrea Mantegna adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 67 no 2 Fall 2009
Chippendales Director A Manifesto of Furniture Design The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 4 Spring 2018

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Art of the Korean Renaissance 1400 1600
Al Andalus The Art of Islamic Spain
In Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Colonial Andes Tapestries and Silverwork 1530 1830
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Etruscan Art in The Metropolitan Museum
American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol I Early Colonial Period The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles
Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Greece Cyprus Etruria Rome
Ancient Art from Cyprus The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art Science and Technology
Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 1 Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Notable Acquisitions 1982 1983