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The Met put 140 objects online as 3D models you can rotate

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 09, 2026
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Seated figure, Middle Niger artist, 13th century

You can’t see the back of a van Gogh painting at the Met. It’s in a frame, against a wall. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art just put high-definition 3D scans of nearly 140 objects online, and now you can rotate “Wheat Field with Cypresses” to examine the brushstrokes from any angle, including the sides h…

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