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Images: Tripod plate, mythological scene.
7th–8th century. Mexico or Guatemala. Maya. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, Gift of the Mol Collection, 2021 (2021.320) | Man Ray
(American 1890–1976). Adrienne
Fidelin, 1937. Contact sheets for the series Mode au Congo. Private
collection © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY /
ADAGP, Paris 2022 | Louis Lang (American, 1814–1893). Women’s Art Class, ca. 1868.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1999
(1999.143) | Giuseppe Sanmartino (Italian, 1720–1793). Angel, second half 18th
century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Loretta Hines
Howard, 1964 (64.164.8a–c) | Quentin Metsys the Younger. Elizabeth I of England (“The Sieve
Portrait”) (detail), 1583. Pinacoteca Nazionale di
Siena. By permission of Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
Polo museale della Toscana. Photo Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena | Georges
Braque (French, 1882–1963). Violin
and Sheet Music: “Petit Oiseau,” early 1913. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A.
Lauder Collection. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP,
Paris; William Michael Harnett (American, (1848–1892). Still Life—Violin and Music,
1888. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
Collection, Wolfe Fund (63.85) | Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper (detail),
1952 (published 1968-70). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. John
B. Turner Fund, 1981 (1981.1098.1) © 2022 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed
by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY | Meisen Kimono with Water Droplets.
Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1930s. Promised Gift of John C. Weber | Maya
artist. Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower (detail),
Mexico, Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900). The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of
Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.728) | Seated Ganesha, 14th–15th
century. India (Orissa). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift
of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1964 (64.102)
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