New York: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters, October 2009

I’m uploading photos to this gallery in batches: there are more photos to come…

Visitors in one of the Classical galleries in the Met. (Met.)
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Visitors in one of the Classical galleries in the Met. (Met.)
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Visitors pass through one of the Classical galleries in the Met. (Met.)
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Marble grave stele of a young woman (Attic, c. 400–390 B.C.) (Met.)
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School-children photographing an Egyptian statue. (Met.)
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Marble grave stele with a family group (Attic, c. 360 B.C.). (Met.)
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A head of a Classical statue. (Met.)
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Roman statue. (Met.)
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A group sketches a Roman statue. (Met.)
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Mosaic panel with pygmies in a Nilotic scene (Roman, mid-3rd century A.D.). (Met.)
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A woman listens to the audio guide describing three wall-paintings from the main reception-hall of the late-Republic (c. 50–40 B.C.) villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. (Met.)
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A school-group gathered around a Roman statue. (Met.)
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Visitors in one of the Classical galleries in the Met. (Met.)
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‘Ugolino and his Sons’ (1865–7) by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–75). (Met.)
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Tapestry of Napoleon I (1805) by François Gérard (1770–1805). (Met.)
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Statue of a reclining Naiad by Antonio Canova (1757–1822) in front of ‘Promenade in a Barge’ and ‘Young girls dancing before a grotto’, woodblock-printed wallpaper by the House of Dufour (c. 1820). (Met.)
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In the European Sculpture Court. (Met.)

(Three photos blended together; the woman in the red coat was in the same position for all three photos while people walked past her.)
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A room from the Hôtel de Cabris at Grasse (built 1771–5). (Met.)
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A dancing cupid in the American Wing courtyard. (Met.)
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‘View of Oyster Bay’ (1908), stained glass by Louis C. Tiffany (1848–1933) and his Tiffany Studios. (Met.)
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‘Autumn Landscape’ stained glass, attributed to Agnes Northrop (1857–1953) for Tiffany Studios. (Met.)
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‘Garden landscape and fountain’ mosaic by Louis C. Tiffany (1848–1933) for Tiffany Studios. (Met.)
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‘Welcome’ by John La Farge (1835–1910), a piece of stained glass installed in the atrium of a private New-York home. (Met.)
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People pass through the American Wing courtyard. (Met.)

(Seven photos blended together.)
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People pass through the American Wing courtyard. (Met.)

(Three photos blended together.)
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‘Miriam and Jubal’ (1843–8) by Wlliam Jay Bolton (1816–84) and John Bolton (1818–98), from the church of St Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn. (Met.)
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‘Faith and Hope’ (1867–9) by Henry E. Sharp (fl. c. 1850–c. 1897), designed for St Ann’s Episcopal church in Brooklyn (now St Ann and the Holy Trinity church). (Met.)
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Statues of Our Lady in the medieval collection. (Met.)
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A silver reliquary in the shape of an arm (northern French, c. 1200–50), a gilded silver Processional Cross (Spanish, c. 1450), and one of three volumes of a Spanish translation of Augustine’s City of God. (Met.)
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Pietà with donors (French, c. 1515): the donors are Pons de Gontaut and his brother Armand, Bishop of Sarlat, in whose family funerary chapel this sculpture originally stood. (Met.)
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‘The Entombment’ (French, c. 1515). (Met.)
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Collection of late-medieval stained glass. (Met.)
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Photographing stained glass. (Met.)
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Late-medieval stained glass. (Met.)
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Virgin and child statue (c. 1325–50) by Guillem Seguer (Catalan, fl. mid-14th century). (Met.)
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Medieval statue of the Virgin and child in front of the rood screen from the cathedral at Valladolid. (Met.)
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Statue of a mourning Virgin from a Crucifixion group (French, c. 1450–75). (Met.)
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A painted-canvas processional banner (c. 1395–1400) by Spinello Aretino (Tuscan, d. 1411). (Met.)
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Visitors in the medieval gallery pass through the rood screen from Valladolid cathedral. (Met.)
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‘Virgin and child enthroned with scenes from the Life of th Virgin’ (Spanish, c. 1400–1500). (Met.)
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Inside the Met.
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Inside the Met.
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Dining room from Lansdowe House (this room built c. 1765–8), in the southwest corner of Berkeley Square, W.1. (Met.)

(Three photos stitched together.)
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Visitors pass through a room filled with 18th-century English furniture. (Met.)
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A bedroom in the Met. (Met.)
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Tapestry room from Croome Court, Worcestershire (built 1751–60). (Met.)

(Three photos stitched together.)
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‘Hibiscus and parrots’ (1910–20), stained glass by Louis C. Tiffany (1848–1933) and Tiffany Studios. (Met.)
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Looking at the outside of the Egyptian Temple of Dendur. (Met.)
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