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• Evening dress.

Date: 1939 {spring-summer 1939}

Couture house: Alix (Paris); Designer: Madame Grés

Medium: Silk

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Bather, 1935, Pierre Bonnard

Medium: oil,canvas

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Silver bust of Serapis, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Gift of Jan Mitchell and sons, 1991 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Silver

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255985

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Pink Flowers #2 - Alejandra Atarés , 2018.

Spanish, 1987-

Oil on linen, 30 x 30 cm.

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Unswept Floor Mosaic

Roman copy of a Greek Original

2nd century AD

Vatican Museum, Rome

This mosaic shows the remains of a banquet, the floor littered with food, bones, shells, and all manner of other things related to eating and otherwise. From this depiction, we can get an idea of what the elite of Greece and Rome ate, and the kind of mess that might have been left behind following a lavish banquet. Although the waste pictured is likely overemphasized for a feeling of opulence and plenty, this mosaic, a dirty floor unable to be cleaned, is not by any means one of a kind.

This mosaic, also titled Unswept Floor, is a 3rd c. BC Roman mosaic, (source: the Getty) and pictures many kinds of seafood, tubers, fruits, and even a broken eggshell in the top left corner.

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In Japan, cherry blossoms are called “sakura,” and are a symbolic flower of spring. Because their lifespan is very short (two weeks after they peak the blossoms start to fall), they remind us of the fleeting nature of life. Enjoy their beauty a little longer with these works of art. “Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom at Mukōjima,” 1869, by Utagawa Hiroshige III “Cherry Blossoms on the Sumida River: The Actor Mizuki Tatsunosuke Viewing the Moon,” 1891, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi “Cherry Blossoms and Willow Leaves,” 1852, by Tsubaki Chinzan “Cherry, from the series Beauties and the Seven Flowers,” 1878, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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From: Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805. A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1782

D55 .P88 1782

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Th. M. M. Grieken - de Plant in hare Ornamentale Behandeling - 1888 - via University of Heidelberg

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Manuscript cuttings.

1) Leaf from Choirbook with initial S in red pen-work on green and blue ground depicting a dragon (Netherlands, late 12th century).

2) Parchment; Pigments; Ink (no date given). Medieval or Renaissance.

3) Initial letter ‘J’ on vellum, burnished gold ground with winged animal and leaf decoration in colour (Italian, 1400-1500).

4) Initial from a Choirbook (Italian; 15th century). Parchment; Pigments; Ink.

5) Parchment; Pigments; Ink (no date given). Medieval or Renaissance.

6) Initial ‘O’ from a Choirbook.(Italy, 14th century-15th century) by Cristoforo Cortese. Illumination on vellum, in rose madder and green on a panel of stamped and burnished gold.

7) Initial ‘C’ from a Choirbook (Italy, late 14th century).

8) Cut-out historiated initial ’M’ with two birds (Lombardy, 15th century). Water-based pigments and burnished gold on parchment.

9) Cut-out decorated initial 'O’ (Lombardy, 15th century). Mosaic gold (an artifical gold pigment containing tin sulphide) and burnished gold leaf (gold paint that has been polished to shine).

10) Decorated initial ‘O’ from a manuscript (Flanders, early 16th century).

Images and text information courtesy V&A.