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Detail of shoulder with chrysanthemum scroll designs inside ogival frames, celadon maebyeong with inlaid peony design and copper-red underglaze, 12th–13th century, 34.5 x 5.8 x 13.2 cm, Treasure 346 (The National Museum of Korea)

Goryeo dynasty

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Pensive Bodhisattva, mid–7th century; Three Kingdoms period, Korea, gilt bronzePensive Bodhisattva, mid–7th century; Three Kingdoms period, Korea, gilt bronze

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Mycenaean tomb

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Introduction to the Northern Renaissance thumb (Detail from Melencolia)

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Viceroyalty of New Granada

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The United States General Hospital [at Georgetown, D.C., formerly the Union Hotel-Volunteer Nurses Attending the Sick and Wounded], engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, vol. 12, no. 294, July 6, 1861, p. 125 (Newberry Library)
An expansive collection of images related to experiences of the U.S. Civil War

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Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1861, oil paint over photomechanically produced lithograph, 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (Terra Foundation for American Art)
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Detail, Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962 (MoMA)

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Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, oil on canvas, 181 x 219.1 cm (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

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Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, bronze, 1884-95 (Musée Rodin, Paris)

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Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (“Carlino”), Rome.

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Detail, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, Self-Portrait, 1790, oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm (National Trust Collections)

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Donatello, David, c. 1440, bronze, 158 cm (Museo Nazionale de Bargello, Florence; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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