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Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th Century)

October 1, 2001

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

Enormous walls are the best-preserved testaments of Great Zimbabwe’s past and the largest example of an architectural type seen in archaeological sites throughout the region.
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Baths and Bathing Culture in the Middle East: The Hammam

October 1, 2012

By Elizabeth Williams

Although today we think of bathing as a private activity, the public bath, or hammam, was a vital social institution in any Middle Eastern city for centuries before the advent of modern plumbing.
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The Batak

October 1, 2004

By Emily Caglayan Ph. D.

The most powerful members of a Batak community are ritual specialists, known as datu.
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"A Rock Crystal Watch with a Cross-Beat Escapement"

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Vuillame Violincello Bach Prelude C Major

March 16, 2012
Violoncello, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875), Paris, mid-19th century. Ex. 1
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Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th–9th Century)

October 1, 2002

By Soyoung Lee

Many Korean monks traveled not only to China but also to India to learn the various teachings of the Buddha.
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Where Beauty Meets Math: The Concinnitas Series

April 17, 2017

By Noam Andrews

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow Noam Andrews takes a close look at the Concinnitas series: a group of 10 aquatint prints of equations chosen by a prominent list of mathematicians and physicists.
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Telling Stories with Library Data

July 21, 2021

By Michael Cummings

See how The Met’s Watson Library uses data visualizations
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Spiritual Power in the Arts of the Toba Batak

July 1, 2023

By Maggie Wander

The rich sculptural, architectural, and textile traditions of the Toba Batak in northern Sumatra have served, for generations, as potent tools for harnessing spiritual power that was central to religious and social life before Christianity was introduced in the nineteenth century.
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Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)

Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)

Date: 1836
Accession Number: 1975.1.162

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An Old Bridge at Hendon, Middlesex

Frederick Waters Watts (British, Bath 1800–1870 Hampstead)

Date: ca. 1828
Accession Number: 97.41.3

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Woman Getting out of the Bath

Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920
Accession Number: 29.100.383

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After the Bath

Pierre Bonnard (French, Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867–1947 Le Cannet)

Date: 1910
Accession Number: 1999.363.5

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Self-portrait

Thomas Seir Cummings (American (born England), Bath 1804–1894 Hackensack, New Jersey)

Date: ca. 1825
Accession Number: 2000.452.1

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Étui

one side based on print published by Robert Sayer (British, Sunderland 1725–1794 Bath)

Date: ca. 1765–70
Accession Number: 17.190.1086a–f

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Thirty Two Lithographic Impressions from Pen Drawings of Landscape Scenery

Thomas Barker of Bath (British (born Wales), Pontypool 1769–1847 Bath)

Date: 1814
Accession Number: 1991.1073.49

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Forty Lithographic Impressions from Drawings of Landscape Scenery by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures after Nature

Thomas Barker of Bath (British (born Wales), Pontypool 1769–1847 Bath)

Date: 1813
Accession Number: 1991.1073.48

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William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764)

Medalist: Jacques-Antoine Dassier (Swiss, Geneva 1715–1759 Copenhagen)

Date: 1744
Accession Number: 2003.406.25

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Illustrations of Furniture, Candelabra, Musical Instruments from the Great Exhibitions of London & Paris with Examples of Similar Articles from Royal Palaces and Noble Mansions

Illustrated and published by John Braund (British, active mid-19th century)

Date: 1858
Accession Number: X.20