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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

Explore over six decades of the Museum’s quarterly publication.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications 2020
Passignano Not Leoni A New Attribution for A Cardinals Procession Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Sevres Elephant Garniture and the Politics of Dispersal during the French Revolution Metropolitan Museum Journal v 56 2021
Gifts of Art The Mets 150th Anniversary
Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
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Domesticated Partners A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel Metropolitan Museum Journal v 55 2020

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Art of the Ancient Near East A Resource for Educators
Extravagant Inventions The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens
Prague The Crown of Bohemia 1347 1437
Radiance and Reflection Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection
Persian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300 1450
Robert Lehman Collection Volume XV European and Asian Decorative Arts
Caspar David Friedrich Moonwatchers
Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional
Valentin de Boulogne Beyond Caravaggio

Metropolitan Museum Journal

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Technical Report Organic Residues from Egyptian Blue Anhydrite Duck Flasks and Other Anhydrite Vessels The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998
Note on Riberas Drawing of Niccolo Simonelli The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 30 1995
Book of Tournaments and Parades from Nuremberg The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 45 2010
Three Nurnberg Compassmacher Hans Troschel the Elder Hans Troschel the Younger and David Beringer The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 2 1969
Old World for the New Developing the Design for the Cloisters The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 23 1988
Two Etruscan Bronze Statuettes The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 1 1968
Group of Fourteenth Century Mosan Sculptures The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 1 1968
Early Meissen Discovery A Shield Bearer Designed by Hans Daucher for the Ducal Chapel in the Cathedral of Meissen The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 37 2002
Petrifying Art Marinos Poetry and Caravaggio The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 26 1991
Late Antique Crossbow Fibula in The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 35 2000

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Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 31 no 3 Spring 1973
Ironwork The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 22 no 8 April 1964
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 26 no 8 April 1968
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1988 1989 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 47 no 2 Fall 1989
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2005 2006 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 64 no 2 Fall 2006
Fashion & Virtue Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution 1520 1620 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 73 no 2 Fall 2015
James J Rorimer The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 1 Part II Summer 1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 1 Part I Summer 1966
Islamic Carpets The Joseph V McMullan Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 28 no 10 June 1970
Velez Blanco Patio An Italian Renaissance Monument From Spain The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 23 no 4 December 1964

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Georges Seurat 1859 1891
Glory of Byzantium Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era AD 843 1261
AngloMania Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
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Caspar David Friedrich Moonwatchers
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Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy
Wisdom Embodied Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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
Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 56 no 1 Summer 1998
Splendid Legacy The Havemeyer Collection
How to Read Chinese Paintings
Italian Paintings A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Vol 1 Florentine School
German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1350 1600
Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth Century Manuscript in Facsimile
Emperors Album Images of Mughal India