Religion & Spirituality

Religion, spirituality, and faith depicted (and challenged) throughout history and culture.

Artist Sholeh Wolpé seated in a garden wearing a black shirt and red scarf

Poet Sholeh Wolpé honors the enduring wisdom of a twelfth-century, Sufi epic.

Detail of the Conference of the Birds folio

Seeking Unity with the Divine

“It’s a world that’s designed to please the eye and please the soul.”
Detail of the Astronomicum Caesareum

This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions

Irving Penn's "The Tarot Reader (Bridget Tichenor and Jean Patchett), New York" with two women in stylist black clothing reading tarot cards with a diagram of a hand behind them

Immaterial: The Tarot Reader

“At first glance, this Irving Penn photo looks like it could be its own tarot card.”
17th century etching of two peasant card players and a skeleton representing death

Immaterial: Bonus Episode, Tarot

Grab a cup of tea and join us for a bonus episode on tarot.
Detail of the interior of a 5th-century BC bronze Chinese zhong or bell with a green patina

Immaterial: Metals, Part One

Dive into the magic of iron, bronze, lead, and copper.
Extreme close-up of a carved piece of green jade

Immaterial: Jade

How did a Māori hei tiki find its way halfway across the world to The Met?

Learn the history of the Ukrainian art of pysanka, or decorating eggs, a custom that predates the Christian era.

As part of the Annual Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture, join scholars in the fields of Egyptian, Islamic, and Ancient Near Eastern art to explore social, religious, and economic interconnections on the African continent and between Africans and their neighbors.

Tarot cards designed by Dali

It’s in the Cards (Catalog)

Explore the tarot cards of The Met’s Watson Library
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