art

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Mark Rothko, White Center, 1950

oil on canvas

Private Collection

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Sultan Muhammad, "The Feast of Sada", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525

Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Camille Claudel, The Wave (or The Bathers), 1897-1903 (?)

onyx marble, bronze

Musée Rodin, Paris

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Man Ray, Augustabernard Gown, 1936

gelatin silver print

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885

oil on canvas

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Andreas Ritzos, Icon with I H S, Crete, Candia (modern Heraklion), second half of 15th century

tempera and gold on wood

Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens

Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium From Greek Collections: Oct. 6-March 2 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, April 9 - Aug. 25 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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Frida Kahlo, Las dos Fridas, 1939

oil on canvas

Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, started 532, Eastern Orthodox Cathedral 537- 1453, Roman Catholic Cathedral 1204-1261, Mosque 1453- 1931, Museum 1935- present

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Henri Matisse, Bathers by a River, March 1909–10, May-November 1913, and early spring 1916–October (?) 1917

oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago

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Hiłamas (Willie Seaweed or Smoky Top), Gikiwe´ (chief’s headdress), ´Nak´waxda´xw Kwakwaka´wakw, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, c.1949

Cedar wood, paint, velveteen

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, The George Gustav Heye Center, New York City

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Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, c.1440/1460

tempera on panel

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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William Blake, Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, c. 1786

watercolor and graphite on paper

Tate Britain, London

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Thomas Moran, Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Valley, 1904

oil on canvas

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

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Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937

oil on canvas

Tate Modern, London

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1972

woven nylon fabric

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Henri Matisse, Study After Dance (I), c.1909

pencil on paper

Museum of Modern Art, NYC

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Night Clock, mase and mosaics by Giovanni Battista Foggini; woodwork by Leonard van der Vinne, 1704-05

ebony, gilt bronze, and semiprecious stone

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles