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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art
This site has a collection of images of Egyptian art. View pieces one at a time or fifty at a time (see top navigation). Includes an introduction to Egyptian art, too.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of South and Southeast Asia
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 168 pages describing numerous pieces of art of South and Southeast Asia with images and lesson plans included.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of Renaissance Europe
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains resources about Renaissance Europe including numerous pieces of art from that period with images and lesson plans.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri"
A view of Bingham's "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri". Includes a description and ownership information as well.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Campin Annunciation Triptych
A detailed description and history behind the painting "The Annunciation Triptych" with photo that can be enlarged.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Masterwork of Byzantine Art
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 24 pages describing the David Plates which tell the story of David and Goliath. Images and lesson plans are included.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of Africa
This educational resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 216 pages describing numerous pieces of African art with images and lesson plans included.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Lehman Collection
View fifty selected pieces from the Robert Lehman Collection of European art, which features paintings, drawings, and works of decorative art from the Italian and Northern Renaissance up through the twentieth century. An excellent survey...
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The Aria Database
The searchable Aria Database features over 1,200 arias from 170 operas by 60 composers. It includes lyrics, translations, synopses of operas, and MIDI files.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Tughra of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
A tughra is a special calligraphic-style signature used by rulers of the Ottoman empire, often on official decrees. This provides information about the tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent(1494-1566), one of the most famous Ottoman sultans.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Panel With a Griffin
A work of Byzantine craftmanship (ca. 1250-1300) that takes the griffin--a mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion--as its subject. The traditional role of griffins as protectors of the dead was...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: "The Dance Class" by Degas
Information is provided about "The Dance Class," by Edgar Degas (1834-1917 CE), who is thought to have made the painting as a tribute to ballet master Jules Perrot.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Madame X John Singer Sargent
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a display of John Singer Sargent's portrait "Madame X," or "Madame Pierre Gautreau." The enlargeable image has some background information about the painting.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arrangement of Flesh Colour and Black
Resource provides a painting "Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret," description and history of the painting.
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The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera, or "The Met," certainly one of the best known American opera companies, if not the #1 American opera house.