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Archaeology & Paleontology

Palmyra Mirage in the Desert

Aruz Joan

ISBN: PB: 9781588396310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragi...

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Decorative Arts

Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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History of Art

Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia

Aruz Joan, Seymour Michael, Killebrew Ann E., Tubb Jonathan N., Finkelstein Israel, Novak Mirko, Aubet Maria Eugenia, Hill Marsha, Gubel Eric, Graff Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.

In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Islamic Arms and Armor In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander David, Pyhrr Stuart W., Kwiatkowski Will

ISBN: HB: 9781588395702, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. More than 120 exceptional examples from the renowned co...

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Landscape Architecture

Dan Graham The Roof Garden Commission

Alteveer Ian, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: MIX MEDIA: 9780300208757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 60 colour illus.

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and...

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History of Art

American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835

Avery Kevin J., Conway Claire A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300093728, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2002
444 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 450 black&white illus., 126 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art began acquiring American drawings in 1880 and has since amassed a collection of more than 1400 works in watercolour, pastel, ink, graphite, chalk and charcoal. This catalogue, the first volume in a series devoted to the...

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History of Art

Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal Volume 1-11: 1968-1976

Aldred Cyril

ISBN: HB: 9780300085686, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
209 pp., 27.8x15.4 cm, 224 illus.

Anyone interested in ancient Egypt will give a warm welcome to this handy book with which the fine Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York reunites a series of papers written by famous names such as C. Aldred and H.G. Fischer, originally issued in it...

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