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Painting of a landscape with mountains by Asher Brown Durant. Structures, including a church and a castle-like structure are visible in the middle distance. Gatherings of people and goats are also visible. A large tree dominates the right side of the composition. The image emphasizes the power of nature over humanity.
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Landscapes

Explore titles that uncover how artists—across centuries and continents—portray nature.

A detail of a limestone drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven. This panel depicts a grandly decorated stupa with the Buddha at its entrance, his hand raised to grant protection.
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Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India

A pioneering study of the emergence of Buddhist art in southern India, featuring vibrant photography of rare works, many published here for the first time.

A detail of Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh. The horizontal composition shows a yellow wheat field with a towering cypress tree at right. The sky is full of puffy clouds and there are mountains in the distance.
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Van Gogh's Cypresses

The first book to explore Vincent Van Gogh's fascination with the "tall and dark" cypresses that feature in some of his most iconic pictures.

Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Lavoisier. An 18th century French couple wearing white wigs. Marie is standing and wearing a white dress. Antonie is sitting, wearing a black suit, and writing with a quill pen on documents sitting on a table draped with a red table cloth and covered with scientific instruments.
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Metropolitan Museum Journal

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Detail of a ceramic vessel made by a Moche artist. This detail shows the neck of the vessel which is modeled to look like a human head wearing a hat and earspools.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

Explore over six decades of the Museum’s quarterly publication.

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About Time Fashion and Duration
Modern Times British Prints 1913 1939
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Splendor of Dresden Five Centuries of Art Collecting
Flame and the Lotus Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Kronos Collections
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All the City s Courtesans A Now Lost Safavid Pavilion and Its Figural Tile Panels Metropolitan Museum Journal v 54 2019
Literary and Visual Interactions in Lo Chih chuans Crows in Old Trees The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 28 1993
harnes all gilte A Study of the Armor of Galiot de Genouilhac and the Iconography of Its Decoration The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 5 1972
Eighteenth century Ironwork from Great George Street London Metropolitan Museum Journal v 53 2018
John Singer Sargents Mrs Hugh Hammersley Colorants and Technical Choices to Depict an Evening Gown Metropolitan Museum Journal v 53 2018
Fragments of Time Ancient Glass in the Department of Greek and Roman Art Metropolitan Museum Journal v 51 2016
Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 33 1998
Adelaide Labille Guiards Pastel Studies of the Mesdames de France The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 43 2008
Altman Madonna by Antonio Rossellino The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 3 1970
Prolegomena to a Study of the Cyprus Plates The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 3 1970

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 27 no 6 February 1969
Choirs of Angels Painting in Italian Choir Books 1300 1500 adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 66 no 3 Winter 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 26 no 3 November 1967
Juan de Pareja by Diego Velazquez The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 29 no 10 Part II June 1971
North of the Apennines Sixteenth Century Italian Painting in Lombardy and Emilia Romagna The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 60 no 4 Spring 2003
Dangerous Beauty Medusa in Classical Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v75 no 3 Winter 2018
Pastel Portraits Images of Eighteenth Century Europe adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 68 no 4 Spring 2011
Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 35 no 3 Winter 1977 1978
Rayyane TabetAlien Property The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v77 no 2 Fall 2019
Islamic Pottery A Brief History The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 40 no 4 Spring 1983

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Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum of Art adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin v 56 no 1 Summer 1998
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