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| Isaac de Moucheron View of the Château de Honselersdijk 1695 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini St Benedict with St Placidus and St Maurus ca. 1573-75 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Alice Neel Hartley 1966 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| John Newman Second Thoughts V 1995 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Kenneth Noland Yellow Half 1963 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Benjamin Perkins A King Tut Treasure 1990 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Antoine Pevsner Construction in the Egg 1948 bronze Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Pintoricchio (Bernardino di Betto) and workshop Disputation of St Augustine ca. 1500-1505 tempera on panel Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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| Giovanni Battista Piranesi Atrium with Doric Columns ca. 1742-43 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Group of Maidens honoring the Genius of Hanover and the Restoration of Prince Adolphus Frederick 1813 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Étienne Ramey La Gloire et la Paix 1827 stone relief on window surround Musée du Louvre |
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| Paul Reed Gilport G-IV 1972 acrylic on canvas Anacostia Community Museum, Washington DC |
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| Gerhard Richter Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo 1971 painted plaster busts of Richter himself and Blinky Palermo on wooden plinths Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Charles Ricketts Bookbinding Design for Curwen Press 1929 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to François Roberday Lidded Vase ca. 1630 lapis lazuli with silver-gilt mounts and dolphin handles (collection of Louis XIV) Musée du Louvre |
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| David Roentgen Secrétaire à cylindre (commissioned by Catherine the Great) ca. 1780 oak with exotic wood veneers and gilt-bronze mounts Musée du Louvre |
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| Roman Empire Cinerary Urn 1st-2nd century AD blown glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
In my stars there's three times ten
of breath they say, plus three times two.
For me, though, three decades will do.
That's the limit set for men;
the rest is Nestor's – and even he
went to Hades finally.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alistair Elliot