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The Art of the Umayyad Period in Spain (711–1031)

October 1, 2001

By Department of Islamic Art

Of works of art and other material culture only coins and scant ceramic fragments remain from this early period of the Umayyad governors (711–56).
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Classical Cyprus (ca. 480–ca. 310 B.C.)

July 1, 2007

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Greek artists and intellectuals were welcomed in Cyprus, although there was always more incentive for Cypriot sculptors, philosophers, and writers to move from Cyprus to the Greek mainland.
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Qin Dynasty (221–206 B.C.)

October 1, 2000

By Department of Asian Art

Qin Shihuangdi is credited with building the Great Wall of China and reviled for a state-sponsored burning of Confucian works and other classics in 213 B.C.
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Exhibition Tour—Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE

August 3, 2023
Explore Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE in this virtual tour of the exhibition.
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Art Libraries 101: Or, My Life as an Intern

April 22, 2015

By Freya Yost

Intern Freya Yost discusses her yearlong internship at Watson Library.
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Hopewell (1–400 A.D.)

October 1, 2002

By Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Flourishing centers with enormous earthworks in geometric shapes as varied as octagons, trapezoids, and ellipses were present in the southern Ohio region of Hopewell.
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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 41 (2006)

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Migration Art, A.D. 300–800

Press Release

Met Museum Announces Summer Schedule of Chats about Art from the Middle East

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Assyria, 1365–609 B.C.

October 1, 2004, revised April 1, 2010

By Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence from around 1400 B.C., Assyria’s fortunes revived in the reign of Ashur-uballit I.
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Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

Pietro Torrigiano (Italian, Florence 1472–1528 Seville)

Date: 1510–15
Accession Number: 36.69

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Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458

John Forbes Watson (Scottish, 1827–1892)

Date: 1873–80
Accession Number: TS1403 .W38 1873 Quarto no.401-458

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Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Date: second half 18th century
Accession Number: 24.80.401

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Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Date: second half 18th century
Accession Number: 24.80.400

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In Praise of Painting

In this Primer, listen to a poet, food stylist, cinematographer, and more, as they muse on life, death, and lemon peels during the Dutch Golden Age.
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Medici Portraits

Power struggles in 16th-century Italy were epic. See how one family crushed it.
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Making The Met

We started with no art, staff, or building. How did we get here? 150 years of transformation, and counting.
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Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer (1822–1902)

Date: 1854
Accession Number: 2015.401

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The Met Cloisters

Explore an extraordinary world full of triumphs of medieval imagination in The Met Cloisters Primer.
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The Last Knight

Meet Maximilian I, an unabashed self-promoter, ruthless leader, and political mastermind.