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The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Sketchbook Caspar David Friedrich April 25-June 1, 1804 Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Publication Bamboo and rock Deng Yu ca. 1360–67 Travelers among Streams and Mountains
Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.
Church 1859 Approaching Thunder Storm Martin Johnson Heade 1859 A Gorge in the Mountains
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
expeditions along the Baltic coast, where he was born, and in the countryside and mountains
Sound artist and The Memory Palace host Nate DiMeo—2016–17 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence—reveals hidden stories from The Met collection.
Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), Albert Bierstadt’s The Rocky
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Oxbow Thomas Cole 1836 Heart of the Andes Frederic Edwin Church 1859 The Rocky
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak (detail), 1863.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
In many instances inspired by the Alpine mountains and valleys the artists encountered
Curators Janice Kamrin and Adela Oppenheim discuss the history of Nubia, the original location of the Temple of Dendur.
Riverine navigation in Nubia was impeded by a series of six narrow, rocky passages
