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    Museum of Art holds an Armenian-made illuminated gospel in its collection. Created in the 13th and 17th centuries, the gospel features elaborately executed...
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    The Unicorn Tapestries (category Articles with short description)
    the tapestries were looted from the château and reportedly were used to cover potatoes – a period during which they apparently sustained damage. By the...
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    Dante's Inferno in which the 13th century count is imprisoned and starving with his children. The work, known for its expressive detail, launched Carpeaux's...
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    Temple of Dendur (category Articles with short description)
    by a wall of enclosure...The whole thing is like an exquisite toy, so covered with sculptures, so smooth, so new-looking, so admirably built. Seeing them...
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    chalice, made from gilded silver studded with jewels. The strawl, made from gilded silver. Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover "The Symbolic Nature of Gold...
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    Met Gala (category Articles with short description)
    Upper East Side of Manhattan. Many of the attendees are depicted on the covers and pages of Vogue. Each year's event celebrates the specific theme of that...
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    Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (category Articles with short description)
    and Albert Museum in London from March 14, 2015, to August 2, 2015, but with additional items of exhibits. The exhibit was organized by the museum's Anna...
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  • away from Saint George, let them incur his vengeance." "metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-09-27. v t e Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover...
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    which acquired it in 1920. Greuze exhibited the work in the Salon of 1757 with a long explanatory title: Une Mère grondant un jeune Homme pour avoir renversé...
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    Bamboo in the Four Seasons (category Articles with short description)
    an independent style in Japan grew more prominent after the Heian period, with the emergence of Yamato-e, of which the Tosa school became renowned for,...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art (category Articles with short description)
    collection include the Sumerian Stele of Ushumgal, the Elamite silver Kneeling Bull with Vessel, the Pratt Ivories, and a set of monumental stone lamassu...
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    The Cloisters (category Articles with short description)
    followed by the Binding of Isaac, and Matthew and John writing their gospels. Capitals in the south gallery illustrate scenes from the life of Christ...
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    Hounds and jackals (category Articles with short description)
    as-yet-unknown date. Sticks were made of expensive materials such as ivory, silver and gold based on the findings at some of the archaeological sites. Wood...
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    Burke Jizō (category Articles with short description)
    The statue, carved from hinoki, is joined with a technique known as yosegi-zukuri (or multiple blocks), with a hollow interior, where the crystal eyes...
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    Statuette of Mercury (category Articles with short description)
    statuette from in 2023. Hermes/Mercury is depicted as a naked young man, with his signature petasos and talaria. Standing forth on his right leg, his right...
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    Beauty Revealed (category Articles with short description)
    white cloth, the 2.6-by-3.1-inch (6.7 by 8 cm) painting, originally backed with paper, is now in a modern frame. Goodridge, aged forty when she completed...
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    Camp: Notes on Fashion (category Articles with short description)
    Harry Styles and Kim Kardashian. The visual style is closely associated with gay culture. It ran from May 8 through September 9, 2019, and was preceded...
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    Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele Dipylon krater Magdeburg Ivories Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover Calligraphic Galleon Carp and Pine Chair of Reniseneb Fieschi...
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    The Met Fifth Avenue (category Articles with short description)
    edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side. After negotiations with the City of New York in 1871, the Met was granted the land between the East...
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    Statue of Jizō (Intan) (category Articles with short description)
    (円派), and the In (Inpa) school (院派). The Inpa were primarily based in Kyoto with close ties to Imperial Household but were active in Nara as well, and are...
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    Cloudy Mountains (category Articles with short description)
    Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele Dipylon krater Magdeburg Ivories Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover Calligraphic Galleon Carp and Pine Chair of Reniseneb Fieschi...
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    Old Trees, Level Distance (category Articles with short description)
    the overall length with annotations by subsequent collections, many of them Imperial, measured well over 853.8 cm. Darkened with age, the painting depicts...
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    produce plays on Broadway under the management of Helen F. Ingersoll. In 1928, with Rita Wallach Morganthau, the Lewisohns established the Neighborhood Playhouse...
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    The Chess Players (Eakins) (category Articles with short description)
    Holmes, a painter. The men are in a dark, wood-panelled Victorian parlour with a quality of light suggesting late afternoon. The game is well in progress...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was curated by Andrew Bolton, who worked closely with Kawakubo to select works for the exhibition. On display were 140 women's...
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    Met Breuer (category Articles with short description)
    main museum's outreach, with a focus on modern art. The Met has an eight-year lease on the building from the Whitney Museum, with the option to renew another...
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    In America: A Lexicon of Fashion (category Articles with short description)
    diverse range of designers from the 1940s to the present are featured. Along with ensembles, various dresses, sweaters, jackets, jumpsuits, bodysuits, coats...
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    China: Through the Looking Glass (category Articles with short description)
    design on Western fashion over the centuries. It was curated by Andrew Bolton with support from Harold Koda). Nathan Crowley was responsible for production...
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    Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (category Articles with short description)
    disagreed with this report but did not elaborate further. The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art inaugurates its annual exhibition with a formal...
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    Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele (category Articles with short description)
    Consisting of well over 6000 pieces, shipped on 275 crates, the stele, along with the collection served as a cornerstone for the study of Cypriot art, a crossroads...
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