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Indian Knoll (3000–2000 B.C.)

October 1, 2003

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

The burials [found in the Indian Knoll mound] were of individuals, not groups, and included men, women, children, and dogs. Many held gender-specific objects.

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A Very Special Visitor: Albrecht Dürer's Woodblock for The Fifth Knot

December 11, 2015

By Femke Speelberg

Now on view in Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620, Associate Curator Femke Speelberg welcomes to the Met the woodblock Albrecht Dürer created to produce his woodcut rendition of Da Vinci's The Fifth Knot.

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What We Do Not Know about The Crucifixion of Stefano da Verona

May 15, 2018

By Keith Christiansen

Curator Keith Christiansen explores the mixture of French and Italian painting styles that influenced artistic production in fifteenth-century Milan, and the impact of this cross-cultural approach on the work of Stefano da Verona.

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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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Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)

October 1, 2000

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

Finely worked to a resilient consistency from local clays and gravel, the millennia-long endurance of [Nok sculpture] is a testament to the technical ability of their makers.

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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography

October 1, 2004

By Malcolm Daniel

Talbot conceived and brought about a wholly new way of making pictures, perfected the optical and chemical aspects of photography, and learned to use the new medium to make complex images for the botanist, historian, traveler, and artist.

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Did You Know? The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Edition

October 21, 2014

By Meryl Cates

Met Museum Presents Press Officer Meryl Cates delves deep into the history of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium to discover little-known facts about the Museum's primary concert and lecture space.

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James Cox (ca. 1723–1800): Goldsmith and Entrepreneur

November 1, 2008

By J. H. Leopold and Clare Vincent

Cox produced lavishly ornamented articles for trade with the Far East, first with India and then with China, where the reception of his “toys” or “sing songs,” as the Chinese are believed to have called them, was at first a success.

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