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an open book with pictures of shoes and words on the front cover that read think sprink art hunt

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Think sphinx! Art hunt

A Metropolitan Museum of Art Guidebook for elementary school classes and families

an old photo of a room with wooden doors

The Cloisters | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Cloisters : photographs 1938. Volume 2, 1938

N3032 : Chased, bronze, jardiniere, bowl, Persian, Early 17th C, Floral, calligraphy

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters Library and Archives The Brummer Gallery Records #Auction #Inventory #Bowl #Bronze

an illustration of a room with columns and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling

Ceramic Tile Flooring

Grès cérame, orvercéram éléments mosaíques d'or et d'argent, páte de verre

Grès cérame, orvercéram éléments mosaíques d'or et d'argent, páte de verre Produits céramiques de Maubeuge, société anonyme au capital de deux millions Douzies-Maubeuge, Nord France 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library Trade Catalogs #Catalog #Ceramic #Tile #Flooring #Maubeuge

an ancient painting with people and symbols on the wall, in black and white colors

Archaeology : exploring the past

Edith W. Watts 1965 Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications #Archaeology #Egypt #Painting

an old painting with a woman sitting on a bench and holding a book in her hands

Pen and parchment : drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb ; with contributions by Lisa Bessette, Barbara Drake Boehm, Evelyn M. Cohen, Kathryn Gerry, Ludovico V. Geymonat, Aden Kumler, Lawrence Nees, William Noel, Wendy A. Stein, Faith Wallis, Karl Whittington, Elizabeth Williams, and Nancy Wu2009 #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt Publications#Medieval #Drawings #Evangelist

an old black and white photo of people walking in front of a building with columns

Entrance; view from 81st Street looking north with people, 1939

Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Media Department Archives #MetMuseum #Archives #Facade #NewYork

an advertisement for the tutanhakan and the recent discovery in upper egypt

Art Department

Egyptian Art

Decoupage

Publicity postcard for Tutankhamen lecture tour by Weigall

1923-1924. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Department of Egyptian Art. Arthur Weigall Papers. #egypt #weigall #postcard #manuscripts

an advertisement for the exhibition of flower pictures, dated by n f engeller and company

Exhibition of flower pictures (1568 to 1927)

May 25th to July 1st, 1927 [at the galleries of] M. Knoedler & Company. Frick Collection. Frick Art Reference Library. Knoedler & Company. Exhibition Catalogs . #flowers #flowerpaintings #exhibitions #catalogs

an old photo of some statues and figurines in black and white, with one sitting on top of the other

Chess: East and West, Past and Present : A Selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection.

Chess: East and West, Past and Present : a Selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection. Catalogue by Jessie McNab Dennis and Charles K. Wilkinson. Introd. by Charles K. Wilkinson 1968 Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications #chess #chessmen #games #india

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Drawing of main reference desk in library.

Drawing of main reference desk in library. February 18, 1946. R. B. O'Connor and Aymar Embury II, Associate Architects. 101 Park Ave, New York City 1946 Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Media Department Metropolitan Museum of Art Images #metmuseum #library #librarian #drawing #architecture

an animal is standing in the middle of a fence with palm trees and flowers around it

Unicorn Tapestries

The Unicorn

The unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters | 1945

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thomas J. Watson Library. Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications. #tapestry #unicorn #cloisters #metmuseum

an old black and white photo of a statue with a baby in it's lap

Art Historian

Medieval Art

Black And White Photography

Views of The Cloisters, 1925;1926

Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters Library and Archives Cloisters Archives collection #MedievalArt #Cloisters #Archives #BlackAndWhitePhotography

an old black and white photo of a tall tower

[An album of photographs of Indian architecture, views and people], 19th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library Rare Books in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries #Architecture #Delhi #India #Photography

an ancient statue is shown in black and white

Charles Sheeler

Sculpture Photography

Ancient Times

Ancient Egypt

Egyptian statuettes / text by Nora E. Scott, photographs by Charles Sheeler, 1946

Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications #Sculpture #Photography #Pharaoh #Sphinx #AncientEgypt