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    Pomegranate carved in the round is an ivory bead shaped like a pomegranate. It is dated to the 8th century B.C. and is attributed to the Assyrian Empire...
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    agricultural cycle, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an ivory bead object titled Pomegranate carved in the round. Today, the pomegranate remains an important...
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    Met Gala (category Balls in the United States)
    in Manhattan. The Met Gala was and still is popularly regarded as the world's most prestigious and glamorous fashion event. Attendees are given the opportunity...
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    The Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn (French: La Chasse à la licorne) is a series of seven tapestries made in the Southern Netherlands around...
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    6 m) memorial poles carved by the Asmat people of New Guinea, to a priceless collection of ceremonial and personal objects from the Nigerian Court of Benin...
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    along the Nile, visitors to the temple inscribed graffiti on the structure. As early as 10 BCE, a visitor carved an oath on the north wall of the pronaos...
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    the two walkways contains an eight-sided fountain. The capitals were carved at different points in the abbey's history and thus contain a variety of forms...
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    Hounds and jackals (category Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    the decorative shapes of the pegs – one player's pins were carved in the form of hounds, while the opposite player's pins were carved as jackals. The...
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    adorned with carved geometric designs. The room originally contained several paintings, but these were removed from the studiolo in the 17th century....
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    Beauty Revealed (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    paper, is now in a modern frame. Goodridge, aged forty when she completed the watercolor portrait miniature on a piece of ivory, presented the breasts as...
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    Magdalene entering the tomb of Jesus and seeing two angels but finding Jesus's body missing. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City....
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    of the In-Between was an art exhibition about the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo and her designs for her fashion house, Comme des Garçons. The exhibition...
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    Kneeling Bull with Vessel (category Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    B.C. The statue is on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ancient Near Eastern Art section. Animals in human postures were common in Proto-Elamite...
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    Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (category 2011 in art)
    Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was an art exhibition held in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring clothing created by British fashion designer...
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    In America: A Lexicon of Fashion was a 2021–2022 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    Broken Eggs (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    Greuze, created in 1756. It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, which acquired it in 1920. Greuze exhibited the work in the Salon of 1757...
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    The Met Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue,...
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    " Alongside the exhibition, China was portrayed in cinematic forms to reveal how perceptions of the country are shaped by pop culture. The exhibit was...
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  • America Today (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    painted with egg tempera in 1930–1931 by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It provides a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, based on Benton's...
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  • In America: An Anthology of Fashion is the 2022 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    Ugolino and His Sons (Carpeaux) (category Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    made by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Paris during the 1860s. It depicts the story of Ugolino from Dante's Inferno in which the 13th century count is imprisoned...
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    The Chess Players is an 1876 genre painting by the American painter Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalogue #96. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan...
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    The Anna Wintour Costume Center is a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art main building in Manhattan that houses the collection of the Costume Institute...
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    Pity (William Blake) (category Prints and drawings in the British Museum)
    print on paper, finished in ink and watercolour, by the English artist and poet William Blake, one of the group known as the "Large Colour Prints". Along...
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    Cloudy Mountains (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    involved in the imperial administrations like his father Mi Fu, who took on the position of military governor in Wuwei as well as secretary for the Ministry...
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    Astor Court (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (category Architecture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    the courtyard, accessed from the middle of the colonnade down a step framed by two stone pillars from an old garden, is a half-pavilion, with carved wood...
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    viewed the exhibit, making it the most visited exhibition in the museum's history. The exhibition featured approximately 40 ecclesiastical works from the Sistine...
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  • The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City that ran from April 29 – August 2, 2009...
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    Camp: Notes on Fashion (category 2019 in art)
    was the 2019 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that houses the collection...
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    Statuette of Mercury (category Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    The Statuette of Mercury is a Roman bronze statuette of the god Hermes created in the 2nd century CE. Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023...
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