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Village (Village)

By: Maurice de Vlaminck, French, 1876 - 1958

…cerebral, stressing carefully structured, balanced composition. In this painting, Vlaminck distorted shapes, defied laws of perspective, and used pigments judiciously to create compositional integrity-unit and harmony of visual rhythms through repetition of interrelated patterns and colors. Compositional lines fan out in horizontal paths across the canvas. In the foreground the red roof line and golden field seem to emit successive waves, culmina…
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Pair of Garden Chairs

By: Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, Germany, operated 1804 - 1874, or Gleiwitz@After a design by, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German, 1781 - 1847

…of the classical architect Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800) and settled in Berlin in 1805. There he immediately received commissions for furniture designs from the Prussian royal family. His style, which differed greatly from the Empire style in France and the Regency style in England, is strikingly modern. Schinkel understood the importance of function and, like many contemporary designers, sought to combine this concept with good design. Historical…
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Islamic Prayer Board (walaja)

By: Mossi people, Burkina Faso

…a person offers these particular verses, along with the surah 1 and the beginning of surah 2, in prayer after reading the entire Qur’an. The other side features the surah 1 in its entirety and the first four verses of surah 2. In West African Islamic culture, carved boards serve several purposes. Students at Islamic schools (madrassas) practice writing the Arabic alphabet and Qur’anic verses on wooden boards. They wash and use the boards over and…
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Centerpiece

By: Paul Storr, British, 1771 - 1844

…aracterized by the use of ancient Greek elements. But a Rococo revival began around 1804, based on the popular eighteenth-century style, and is evident in Storr’s work through his use of scroll-like forms and naturalistic details….
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Christ as Man of Sorrows

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

…ing 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 monastic cell. By placing the figure of Christ imme…
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Puzzle Jug

…ttom of the jug. The other two need to be closed by the fingers 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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Liberation of Saint Peter

By: Giovanni Lanfranco, Italy, 1582 - 1647

…nting is unfinished; the extra limbs not yet painted out provide a glimpse into the mind of the artist as he made changes on the canvas. A preparatory drawing for the angel also shows Lanfranco experimenting with the angel’s pose. The angel plays a pivotal role in the story. Lanfranco faithfully followed the biblical source for the subject of the painting, from the book of Acts 12:6-7. While Peter was imprisoned in Jerusalem, an angel arrived to f…
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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

…s is one of a group of images made by Wolcott to chronicle the lives of cotton pickers in the Mississippi Delta. Captured in a moment of repose, the image does not give a sense of the backbreaking work performed by these young laborers. Sometimes it was beauty, not suffering, that Wolcott tried to capture with her camera. It was the effortless beauty of the workers’ natural poses that caught her attention. Years later, she recalled that what she s…
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Immortals in a Forest Clearing

By: Wang Yuanxun, Chinese, 1728 - 1807

How do you know an Immortal when you meet one? In China 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 fi…
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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

…, his New York Times obituary declared, “No one has surpassed him in the painting of Winter landscapes, for while he knew how to render the delicate colors of 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…