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Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii by Randolph Rogers

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/115401-nydia-blind-girl-pompeii

Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008-2009, no. 125, repro.

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Leonello d’Este, 1407-1450, Marquess of Ferrara 1441 [obverse] by Pisanello

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/44332-leonello-deste-1407-1450-marquess-ferrara-1441-obverse

Pisanello, who was a painter as well as a medalist, is generally credited with having invented the Renaissance medal form, as well as having brought it to its highest potential. He made several medals of the Marquess of Ferrara, this one being for the occasion of Leonello’s marriage to Maria of Aragon in 1444.
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los

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Tropical Forest with Monkeys by Henri Rousseau

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61253-tropical-forest-monkeys

Born in 1844 to a working-class family in Laval, France, Henri Rousseau worked briefly for a lawyer and served a stint in the military before taking a position at a French customs post in 1868; the nickname “ Le Douanier “ (the customs inspector) remained with him even after his retirement in 1893.
Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los

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