This Bulletin discusses Lucas Cranach's Saint Maurice and the importance of this saint during the stormy period of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Anticipating the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, this Bulletin draws on the work of donor Mrs. Eva S. Kollsman and connects this image of Saint Maurice to sculptural relics belonging to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the most powerful Roman Catholic prelate at the time.

Former High School Intern Luca describes Vincent van Gogh's Cypresses, currently on view in gallery 826.

Teen Advisory Group Members Sumura and Tiffany share an original short story about the subjects of two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Highlights of volume 52 include a study of the intertwined relationship between two late masterpieces by Andrea del Sarto, new attributions for seven Roman drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries, and a reevaluation of Horace Pippin's painting, The Lady of the Lake from the late 1930s.

Conservator Anna Serotta and Associate Research Scientist Federico Carò explore a small stone fragment from the Museum's collection that may hold key information about the use of high-performance abrasives in ancient Egypt.

This exhibition is the first to examine an intriguing but largely unknown side—in the literal sense—of Renaissance painting: multisided portraits in which the sitter’s likeness was concealed by a hinged or sliding cover, within a box, or by a dual-…