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Christ as Man of Sorrows

By: Marco di Antonio Ruggieri, called Marco Zoppo, Italy, 1433 - 1478

…Zoppo was born in Cento, close to Bologna. During his career, Zoppo’s work took him to Padua, Bologna, and Venice. His paintings reveal intimate knowledge of the work of Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini. In particular Bellini’s devotional paintings from the 1460s exerted a strong influence on Zoppo, who in turn became known for his paintings depicting the dead Christ. This painting was made for private devotion in a home, or perhaps in a monas…
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Puzzle Jug

…before the contents can be consumed. The legend inscribed on the jug challenges the drinker to take a swig—the puzzle is to find out how!…
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Standing Four-Armed Saraswati, Goddess of Learning with Sacred Goose (Hamsa), Musician, Garland-Bearer and Flywhisk Holding Attendants

…The Goddess of knowledge, poetry, and learning, Sarasvati is a particularly popular deity in the Jain religion in west and central India. Jains believe that an immortal and indestructible soul resides in every living thing, no matter how small. For the Jains human existence is a continuous cycle of life, death, and rebirth that is governed by karma, the results of all past deeds and actions….
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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns waiting to be paid off for cotton picking and buy supplies inside plantation store. Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

By: Marion Post Wolcott, American, 1910 - 1990

…ra. It was the effortless beauty of the workers’ natural poses that caught her attention. Years later, she recalled that what she saw and wanted to shoot  “was how elegant they were without really knowing it.”…
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Immortals in a Forest Clearing

By: Wang Yuanxun, Chinese, 1728 - 1807

…it is easy as they all have special attributes. For example, the gentleman on the right is Li Tieguai. As he is lame, he is always shown with a crutch and also with a gourd over his back that contains magic vapors. The lady in the middle is Ho Xianku. She is usually shown holding a lotus blossom, but here her emblem appears to be a piece of cinnabar, one of the sources of immortality. The figure on the left is Lan Zaihe. She always wears a blue g…
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Tomb Guardian

By: State of Chu, Hubei province, China

…ved one of his best robes, and cried out ‘The Summons of the Soul’ three times as part of the burial ritual. Tomb guardians such as this were placed inside the doors of tombs to either protect the soul of the deceased or perhaps escort the departed on the journey to the afterlife….
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Horseneck Brook

By: John Henry Twachtman, American, 1853 - 1902

…f tree and shrub against their white surroundings, his brush had the power to suggest the softness and fleecy quality of snow which has fallen recently and still clings to bough and stalk.” Here, Twachtman paints Horseneck Brook, a stream that cut through the artist’s seventeen-acre estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. The painting, which was probably painted en plein air (French for “in the open air”) is inscribed to Twachtman’s friend and neighbor…
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Kanzan and Jittoku

By: Ekkei Shuken, also called Mitsurin, Japan, 1817 - 1884

….There is nothing that can truly compare –Tell me, how can I explain it?…
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Vase (Model #E572), so-called “Rocket Vase”

By: Anchor Hocking Glass, United States, Lancaster, Ohio, est. 1905

…e don’t know how deliberate the Space Race influenced the design of this vase, it would have been difficult for Americans of the time not to see this object as a related to the Space Age….
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Survivals

By: Luigi Lucioni, American, born Italy, 1900 - 1988

…ll to its fullest, painting an array of diverse objects, including cloth-bound books, dried fruit, and a terracotta vessel. The title—which Lucioni also used the same year for an etching of a dilapidated Vermont barn—refers to how things can change yet survive through the passage of time. In a 1971 interview, Lucioni discussed his views on realism, stating, “My idea of realism is not what you see, but it’s to create what there is in reality.”…