About Things That Shape Thought

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FATESCAPES, by Czech photographer, Pavel Maria Smejkal—iconic photos without their subjects. Not to deny history of course, but to show how iconic these photos really are: we even recognize their backgrounds.

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The Drawbridge (No. 7 from the series Carceri d’invenzione [Imaginary Prisons]), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1745

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Lee Bontecou - Hiatus

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Map of California Island, by Johannes Vingboon, ~1650.

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Left: Mark Rothko, Untitled (Of Grey and Black), 1969

Right: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Caribbean Sea, Jamaica, 1980

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Dutch light cruiser Java at sea, circa 1940-’42.

(AWM: 045393)

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Golden Beach

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Jan Toorop Poster Design ‘Het Nederlandsch Toonel Pandorra' 

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Tank M24 "Chaffee"

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South Vietnamese M41 patroling on a highway. Pleiku 1967

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BOSCH, Hieronymus (circa 1450–1516)

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail of right panel, hell). Oil on panel Prado Museum Ed. Orig.

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Detail of monstrous forms from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymous Bosch

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Hieronymus Bosch - The Crucifixion of Saint Julia. Detail. 1495-1505

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The Funnel Guy - detail from Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony (fragment), around 1500–10.

Kansas City museum’s painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch

Temptation of St Anthony in the Nelson-Atkins Museum was believed to be by a pupil of the great Dutch artist