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| Anonymous Chinese Sculptor Seated Buddha AD 550-577 marble Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Ambrosius Francken the Elder Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist ca. 1600 oil on canvas Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee |
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| Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio The Annunciation ca. 1608 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy |
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| Paolo Finoglia Joseph and Potiphar's Wife ca. 1640 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Jan Cossiers Portrait of a Man ca. 1650 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Bertholet Flémal The Crucifixion, with the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalen before 1675 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Jacopo Brustolon Lot and his Daughters ca. 1680 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Vincenzo Camuccini Studies for the Death of Lucretia before 1822 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Paul Flandrin Landscape with Tigers, Gorges d'Ollioules in Background 1846 watercolor on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Gustave Caillebotte Mademoiselle Boissière knitting 1877 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Thomas Eakins Samuel Murray as Life Model ca. 1890-92 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Emil Carlsen The Samovar ca. 1920 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Daniel Garber Lamp Light ca. 1930 etching North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Elmer Bischoff Woman on Sofa 1959 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Fischer The Blue Zebra ca. 1975-80 hand-colored lithograph and collage Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Philip-Lorca diCorcia William Charles Everlove, 26 years old, Stockholm, Sweden via Arizona, $40 1991 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| James Casebere Toilets 1995 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Blind race below, in your uncertain day,
Like to the short-lived leaves, as frail as they,
Of feeble strength, a forgery of clay,
Whose shadowy troops drift past in sickly throngs,
Dream-like, unblest with bird-wing or bird-songs,
We are immortal beings, men, attend;
Our airy lives know neither age nor end,
Our thoughts imperishable are and high.
Learn now the pure transactions of the sky,
Learn what a solitary bird forebodes,
The origins of rivers and of gods,
Secrets of Chaos and of Erebus
Beyond the sophists' wisdom, learn from us.
– from The Birds by Aristophanes (414 BC), translated by Elizabeth Bishop (ca. 1942)