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The increasingly erotic character of Rodin’s sculpture in the 1880s can be explained by his preoccupation with two highly charged literary sources. These were Dante’s Inferno and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil.
Elsen, Albert E. Auguste Rodin: Readings on His Life and Work.
Inscription: Signed and inscribed (on arm, lower edge, incised): HM 2/10Marking: Stamped (on reverse, bottom, by buttocks): CIRE/ VALSUAN/ PERDUE [in rectangle]
Elsen. The Sculpture of Henri Matisse.
Albert Elsen. Purposes of Art. 4th ed. [1st ed. 1962].
Albert Elsen. Purposes of Art. 4th ed. [1st ed. 1962].
Tactile and optical sensations coexist: nowhere else in Vermeer’s oeuvre does one
In The Milkmaid, tactile and optical sensations coexist: nowhere else in Vermeer’
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The curator and art historian reflects on the significance of representation in the world of fashion.
Robe: The goals are to give the audience an experience they cannot find anywhere else
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Below the falcon, the name Horus name of Amenemhat I (wHm-msw.t) is written. The inscription above the falcon headed god reads: bHd.t(j) Di=f anx, (Horus of Edfu, may he give life). The remaining inscription probably accompanies the divine figure to the left
reused from an earlier building that stood either at the same site or somewhere else
How many millions have climbed the Great Staircase since Tiepolo’s Triumph of Marius was unrolled from its giant storage drum in 1965?
the museum); the rose and gold banners flowing in a wind that registers nowhere else
