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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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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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Past Exhibition

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met

October 16, 2018–September 17, 2023
Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Met collection since the Museum's founding purchase in 1871. This exhibition brings together some of the Museum's greatest painti…
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How To Look Like a 17th-century Woodcut Print

October 15, 2021

By Cecilia Zhou

Transform yourself into a seventeenth-century Italian work of art with a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on chiaroscuro woodcuts.
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Past Exhibition

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: Selections from the Collection

November 22, 2025–May 10, 2026
This exhibition will see the return of some of the Museum’s most beloved treasures of Chinese painting and calligraph
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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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Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages

September 1, 2010

By Jennifer Meagher

With Giotto, the flat world of thirteenth-century Italian painting was transformed into an analogue for the real world, for which reason he is considered the father of modern European painting.
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The Nabis and Decorative Painting

October 1, 2004

By Laura Auricchio

The Nabis rejected the Renaissance ideal of easel painting as a window onto a fictional world. Disavowing illusions of depth, they abandoned both linear perspective and modeling.
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Landscape Painting in Chinese Art

October 1, 2004

By Department of Asian Art

Painting was no longer about the description of the visible world; it became a means of conveying the inner landscape of the artist’s heart and mind.
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The Kano School of Painting

October 1, 2003

By Department of Asian Art

The Kano school was the longest lived and most influential school of painting in Japanese history; its more than 300-year prominence is unique in world art history.
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Videos

How To Do Your Makeup Like an 18th-Century French Aristocrat

Ever wanted to master the look of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat? Join Cecilia Zhou, Senior Guide at the Harvard Art Museums, for a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on Jean Marc Nattier's Portrait of a Woman (1753) from The Met collection.

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Focus on Asian Art

Jennifer Perry, Mary and James Wallach Conservator of Japanese Art, and Masanobu Yamazaki, Conservator, are carrying out the two-year treatment and remounting of Tagasode ("Whose Sleeves?"), a pair of folding screens formerly in the H. O. Havermeyer Collection.

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Focused Exhibition at The Met Explores Significance of Water to Indigenous Peoples and Nations in the United States

Exhibition Dates: June 23, 2022–April 2, 2023