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| Anonymous French Sculptor Angel with Flowering Staff ca. 1160-70 limestone relief Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Antonello da Messina The Virgin reading ca. 1460-62 tempera and oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Anonymous German Painter Portrait of a Woman ca. 1480 tempera on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Sandro Botticelli Portrait of a Young Man holding a Roundel ca. 1480-85 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ambrosius Benson Portrait of a Man ca. 1530 oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) Portrait of a Woman with a Lynx ca. 1530-40 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
| Anonymous French Sculptor Goddess Diana with Stag ca. 1550-60 marble fountain ornament (gilt-bronze features and vase-shaped support added later) Musée du Louvre |
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| Trophime Bigot Physician with Urine Sample ca. 1633 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous English Painter Portrait of a Sculptor ca. 1640 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Lambert-Sigisbert Adam Self Portrait 1737 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| David Allan Portrait of James Tassie, sculptor and gem-engraver ca. 1781 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Frédéric Bazille Portrait of art collector Edmond Maître 1869 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Aubrey Beardsley Young Woman with Censer (illustration for Malory's Morte d'Arthur) 1893 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Paul Berthon Salon des Cent 1897 lithograph (poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Mihály Biró 1919 May 1 1919 lithograph (poster for May Day celebration in Hungary) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| George Bellows Portrait of art collector Chester Dale 1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous American Designer Dead Kennedys - Toxic Reasons Fried Abortions - Angst Monday at the Mabuhay ca. 1980 photocopy (flyer) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
from The Book of the World
But silly we (like foolish children) rest
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribbons, leaving what is best,
On the great writer's sense ne'er taking hold;
Or if by chance our minds do muse on ought
It is some picture in the margin wrought.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (1623)





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