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Life of the Buddha

October 1, 2003

By Kathryn Selig Brown

The legends that grew up around him hold that both his conception and birth were miraculous.
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Art for the Christian Liturgy in the Middle Ages

October 1, 2001

By Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

Because of their sacred function, liturgical objects were often crafted of the most precious materials.
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Mendicant Orders in the Medieval World

October 1, 2004

By Charlotte Appleyard and Annie Montgomery Labatt

Their personal maxim was: sibi soli vivere sed et aliis proficere (“not to live for themselves only but to serve others”).
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Exhibition at The Met to Explore Cultural Exchange and Inspiration through Indian Visual Media

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American Revival Styles, 1840–76

October 1, 2004

By Amelia Peck

Nineteenth-century American architecture and furniture design was characterized by a parade of different styles that purported to take their inspiration from the design vocabulary of the past.
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Ancient Ear Hair: How Do Crystals Form?

August 26, 2021
Art at The Met is made of many materials, including natural materials like minerals. Environmental conditions can affect these minerals, and even make an ancient statue grow ear hair! Learn about the science of crystals and salts, and how we use our knowledge to protect the art.
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The Cult of the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages

October 1, 2001

By Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

Theologians established a parallel between Christ’s Passion and the Virgin’s compassion: while he suffered physically on the cross, she was crucified in spirit.
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Romanesque Art

October 1, 2002

By Julien Chapuis

Stone churches of hitherto unknown proportions were erected to accommodate ever-larger numbers of priests and monks, and the growing crowds of pilgrims who came to worship the relics of the saints.
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Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe

August 1, 2007

By Jean Sorabella

A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.
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Daoism and Daoist Art

December 1, 2011

By Birgitta Augustin

Over time, Daoism developed into an organized religion—largely in response to the institutional structure of Buddhism—with an ever-growing canon of texts and pantheon of gods, and a significant number of schools with often distinctly different ideas and approaches.
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Side Chair

Date: 1850–60
Accession Number: 1982.208.1

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Side Chair

Date: 1850–60
Accession Number: 1982.208.2

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Gothic Revival Library

This library comes from a red-brick Gothic Revival villa built for banker Frederick Deming (1787–1860) and his family in the hamlet of Balmville, New York. The house is a classic example of the Gothic Revival style in domestic architecture and the room is arranged to illustrate how an upper-middle-class family might have furnished their library.