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Own a Van Gogh in Animal Crossing, with The Met's New Share Tool

April 27, 2020

By The Digital Editors

Here's how to download Met artworks into the game.
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Paintings Uncovered

May 12, 2015

By Betty Quinn

Former MediaLab Intern Betty Quinn describes an interactive interface she created that allows users to explore the hidden layers found beneath a painting's surface.
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Sienese Painting

October 1, 2004

By Keith Christiansen

Duccio may be considered the father of Sienese painting and is, together with Giotto, one of the founders of Western art.
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Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High speaks with author Kathryn Calley Galitz about her new book, a landmark survey of The Met's painting collection.
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Conserving Cuzco School Paintings

February 4, 2021

By José Luis Lazarte Luna

Follow the conservation treatment of _Emblem of Folly_, a painting from colonial Cuzco that “shines a light on those communities or artists that have not had the focus before.”
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Korean Munbangdo Paintings

December 1, 2016, revised May 1, 2020

By Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun

In addition to illustrating the appeal of new and foreign items in Joseon society, munbangdo paintings represent three significant aesthetic trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: illusionism; antiquarianism and empiricism; and auspicious symbolism.
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Roman Painting

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Although ancient literary references inform us of Roman paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials, works that have survived are in the durable medium of fresco that was used to adorn the interiors of private homes in Roman cities and in the countryside.
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Listening to Paintings

January 20, 2015

By Jayson Kerr Dobney

Associate Curator Jayson Dobney introduces readers to some of the themes and musical instruments currently on view in the exhibition Painting Music in the Age of Caravaggio.
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Chinese Painting

June 1, 2008

By Maxwell K. Hearn

Integrating calligraphy, poetry, and painting, scholar-artists for the first time combined the “three perfections” in a single work.
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Northern Italian Renaissance Painting

October 1, 2006

By Andrea Bayer

Giorgione and Titian in Venice and Correggio in Parma were brilliant practitioners of what [Vasari] called the maniera moderna, or modern manner of painting.
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Painting attributed to Bhawani Das (Indian) or a follower

Date: ca. 1777–82
Accession Number: 2008.312

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Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 1990.61

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Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 14.40.721

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Louis Lang’s Art Students presents an intriguing window into the professionalization of women’s art education in the United States during the nineteenth century.

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Date: 664–30 B.C.
Accession Number: 22.4.5

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Over the course of a single summer, Henri Matisse and André Derain collaborated with Amélie Matisse to create new forms of sensory expression.

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François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)

Date: 1765
Accession Number: 66.167

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Jewel animals, amorini, and figurines of the lid attributed to Jan Vermeyen (Brussels (Hapsburg Lowlands) before 1559–1608 Prague)

Date: 1641–42, the jeweled elements on the lid in the form of animals, amorini holding bow and quiver, and the statuettes of Orpheus and Diana, Prague, ca.1600
Accession Number: 2020.400a, b

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Emperor Huizong (Chinese, 1082–1135; r. 1100–25)

Date: early 12th century
Accession Number: 1981.278