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• Glass plate slide of a solar eclipse.

Date: 1922

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▪︎ Astarte Syriaca.

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Date: 1877

Medium: Oil on canvas

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▪︎ Statue of Mercury.

Date: 1794-1795

▪︎ Statue of Diana (Diana of Versailles).

Date: 1775-1800

▪︎ Statue of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere).

Date: 1794-1795

Artist: Charles Meynier

Place of origin: France

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▪︎ Cupid.

Date: 1744

Artists: Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698 - 1762)

Medium: Marble

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▪︎Alpine Flowers.

Date: 1876

Artist: Joseph Schuster (1812-1890)

Medium: Oil on canvas

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▪︎ Seven women in regional costumes.

Date: End of the 16th century

Place of origin: France

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▪︎ Astronomical Clock.

Attributed to: Wolfgang Hager

Date: 1625-1635

Place of origin: Germany, Thuringia, Arnstadt

Medium: Iron, brass

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~ Winged Feline and Bull (recto), Two Winged Angels (verso), Folio from an Ajaib al-Makhluqat wa-Gharaib al-Mawjudat (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence).

Artist/Maker: al-Qazwini

Place of origin: India, Karnataka, Bijapur

Date: ca. 1571-1575

Medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper.

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▪︎ Helmet with ornament bearing seed syllable for Fudō Myōō.

Date: 17th century

Place of origin: Japan

Medium: Iron, gilt copper, deerskin, silk, and lacquer.

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▪︎ Salome Dancer.

Artist: Robert Henri (United States)

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

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▪︎ The Rehearsal Onstage.

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: ca. 1874

Medium: Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on thin cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas

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▪︎ Katharina Friederike Wilhelmine Benigna, Duchess of Sagan.

Artist: Josef Grassi (1757-1838)

Date: ca. 1799-1838

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▪︎ Artificial right hand.

Date: 1915-1925

Maker: A E Evans

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▪︎ The Silence.

Date: ca. 1798

Medium: Marble

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▪︎ Judith Beheading Holofernes.

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome 1593 - Naples 1652/53)

Date: ca. 1620

Medium: Oil on canvas

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▪︎ Sundial.

Place of origin: Holland

Date: 1613

Medium: Ivory, brass, glass

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▪︎ Juno.

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn

Date: ca. 1662-1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

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