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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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Time of Crisis The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 2 Fall 2020
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2020 2022
Gifts from the Fire American Ceramics 1880 1950
Juan de Pareja Afro Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velazquez
Bacchante and Infant Faun Tradition Controversy and Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 1 Summer 2019
New Insights into Filippo Lippi s Alessandri Altarpiece Metropolitan Museum Journal v 57 2022
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Gosford Wellhead An Ancient Roman Masterpiece The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v80 no 3 Winter 2023
Africa and Byzantium
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Bacchante and Infant Faun Tradition Controversy and Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 1 Summer 2019
Thomas Eakins and The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 52 no 3 Winter 1994 1995
Sculpture from Notre Dame Paris A Dramatic Discovery
Last Knight A Picture Album
Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I
Time of Crisis The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 78 no 2 Fall 2020
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Frankish Art in American Collections
Emperors Album Images of Mughal India
Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection

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Couchet Harpsichord in the Crosby Brown Collection The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 2 1969
Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba Technical Notes The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 6 1972
Alphonse de Neuvilles The Spy and the Legacy of the Franco Prussian War The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 1920 1984 1985
Bruges Donor Identified Canon Victor van Zwavenarde ca 1413 1481 The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 48 2013
Stained Glass Window from Flavigny sur Moselle The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998
Bodies by Rubens Reflections of Flemish Painting in the Work of South German Ivory Carvers The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 22 1987
Some Emblematic Uses of Hieroglyphs with Particular Reference to an Archaic Ritual Vessel The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 5 1972
Identification of a Plant in the Unicorn Tapestries The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 17 1982
Style and Subject Matter in Native Thracian Art The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 16 1981
Altarpiece by Lippo Memmi Reconsidered The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 9 1974

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George Grey Barnard The Cloisters and The Abbaye The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 37 no 1 Summer 1979
Decorative Arts of the Twentieth Century The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 37 no 3 Winter 1979 1980
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 24 no 9 May 1966
Nelson A Rockefeller Vision Arts of Africa Oceania and the Americas The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 72 no 1 Summer 2014
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 25 no 10 June 1967
Abstract Expressionists The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 44 no 3 Winter 1986 1987
Before Yesterday We Could Fly An Afrofuturist Period Room The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v79 no 3 Winter 2022
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 30 no 6 June July 1972
Medieval Sculpture at The Cloisters The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 46 no 3 Winter 1988 1989
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 2016 2018 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v76 no 2 Fall 2018

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Byzantium and Islam Age of Transition
Vatican Collections The Papacy and Art
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries
China Dawn of a Golden Age 200 750 AD
Gilbert Stuart
Regarding Warhol Sixty Artists Fifty Years
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor 1156 1868
Giambattista Tiepolo 1696 1770
When Silk Was Gold Central Asian and Chinese Textiles

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Persian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 56 no 1 Summer 1998
From Attila to Charlemagne Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth Century Manuscript in Facsimile
New Nineteenth Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries
Recent Acquisitions A Selection 1986 1987
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters
Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy