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Eagle-Headed
Winged Being
Pollinating the
Sacred Tree
(c. 900
BC) This relief
comes from an
Assyrian palace.
Third floor
. Self-portrait (1660)
Rembrandt painted almost
100 self-portraits. This one
shows him at the age of 54.
Key
The American wing
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Art of Arab Lands
and Central Asia
Asian art
Drawings and prints
European paintings
European sculpture
and decorative arts
Greek and Roman art
Modern and
Contemporary art
Musical instruments
19th- and early 20th-
century European paintings
and sculptures
Photographs
Special exhibitions
Astor Court
Non-exhibition space
The Astor Court
In 1979, 27 craftspeople from China,
responsible for the care of Suzhou’s
historic gardens, came to New York to
replicate a Ming-style scholar’s garden
in the Metropolitan Museum. They used
centuries-old techniques and handmade
tools that had been passed down for
generations. It was the first cultural
exchange between the United States
and the People’s Republic of China. The
result is a quiet garden for meditation,
a Western parallel to Suzhou’s Garden
of the Master of the Fishing Nets.
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