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Collecting Inspiration Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.

Harvey Medill Higgins

ISBN: HB: 9781588396907, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2021
320 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 275 colour illus.

Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) was the creative leader who brought unparalleled originality and success to Tiffany & Co. during the late 19th century. A silversmith, designer, and prodigious collector, Moore sought out exceptional objects from around th...

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Hollein Max

ISBN: PB: 9781588397003, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
456 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 600 colour illus.

More than a simple souvenir book, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide" provides a comprehensive view of art history spanning five millennia and the entire globe, beginning with the ancient world and ending in contemporary times. It includes media a...

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Ancient World

Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome

Hemingway Sean, Karoglou Kiki

ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...

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Jewelry The Body Transformed

Holcomb Melanie, Benzel Kim, Lee Soyoung, Craig Patch Diana, Pillsbury Joanne

ISBN: HB: 9781588396501, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body – extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body...

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Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 Opulence and Fantasy

Haidar Navina Najat, Sardar Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780300211108, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important, highly cultured Muslim kingdoms and was a nexus of international trade. Invigorated by cultural connections to Iran, Turkey, East Africa, and...

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Treasures from India

Haidar Navina Najat

ISBN: HB: 9780300208870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2014
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

India's rich tradition of jewelled arts has produced extravagant and opulent creations that range from ornaments for every part of the body to ceremonial court objects such as boxes, daggers and thrones. Starting with the Mughal rulers of India (1526...

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How to Read Chinese Paintings

Hearn Maxwell K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2008
184 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 175 colour illus.

The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting", in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropo...

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Paths Dreams Take

Hammer Elizabeth, Russo Teresa

ISBN: CD: 9780300086874, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2001
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This CD-ROM provides a multifaceted introduction to the pleasures and fundamentals of Japanese art. Neolithic ceramics, sacred sculptures, brightly painted folding screens, boldly designed woodblock prints, and intricately embroidered robes are among...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 2: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300088472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2001
350 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 182 black&white illus., 18 colour illus.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentiety-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculpt...

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American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865

Hassler Donna J., Marter Joan M., Tolles Thayer, Thompson Jerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300085174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2001
480 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 198 black&white illus., 29 colour illus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a distinguished and comprehensive collection of late nineteenth-century American sculpture, particularly strong in neoclassical and Beaux Arts works and acclaimed for its preeminent group of lifesize statues in marb...

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