Collections: API

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: The Islets at Port-Villez (Les Iles à Port-Villez)

Throughout his sixty-year painting career, Monet captured the shifting light and color of the Seine River, often from a flat-bottomed studio...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Power Figure (Nkishi)

    To judge by the proliferation of tacks on this nkishi, its function was probably to protect the owner and his or her family from smallpox, a...

     

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    A single geographical location associated with an item. Note that an item can have a number of relevant geographical locations. Inspect location_type to determine the relationship type. This field may contain (but is not limited to) the following values:

    • place made
    • place manufactured
    • possible place made
    • place found
    • place collected
    • place excavated
    • possible place collected
    • reportedly from
    • place designed
    • place printed
    • place retailed
    • place used
    • possible place manufactured
    • possible place purchased

    Returned in the context of calls to collection.getItem, collection.search

    Attributes

    code (Required)
    A special non-numeric code identifying the geolocation. For example, the code "i:10135" indicates Adamieh, Egypt.
    name (Required)
    The name of the geographical location (e.g., "Zeeland, Michigan, USA")
    location_type (Optional)
    The relationship of this location to the enclosing item (e.g., "place manufactured")

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