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  • Happy Thanksgiving – Words to Live By

    Freedom From Want, 1943 by Norman Rockwell,Saturday Evening PostCover One of the Four Freedoms series inspired by a speech by Franklin Roosevelt: In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look…

  • Last Judgment

    The Last Judgment, 1536-1541 by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Michelangelo and the Vatican butted heads over the nudity in this colossal fresco of the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse. All of the…

  • Recording Nature

    Nymphea ‘Bagdad,’ 2006 by Leslie Berge, for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A Florilegium is a collection of flora, most often garden flowers. The earliest known examples date to about the 15th century, but as…

  • Flora and Fauna

    Allegory of Spring by Guiseppe Arcimboldo, 1563, The Louvre, Paris. Arcimboldo created some of the most fascinating paintings of the 16th century. He began his career making stained glass windows and eventually worked for…

  • Guillaume

    Egyptian Faience Hippo, Middle Kingdom Period, 3800 – 1710 BC. Faience is a type of ceramic with a high concentration of quartz. When fired it turns a bright blue. While the Ancient Egyptians considered…

  • More Greek Sculpture

    Laocoon and his Sons (or Laocoon Group), Greek Hellenistic (most likely 42 -20 BC), Vatican Museums, Rome. Laocoon warning about the Trojan Horse earned him the wrath Poseidon who sent serpents to attack him…

  • Winged Victory

    Nike of Samothrace or Winged Victory, Greek Hellenistic period (220-190 BC) The Louvre, Paris. It is thought that this work was originally created to celebrate a naval victory. The dramatically flowing drapery on the…

  • A Strong Enemy

    Dying Gaul, Roman Copy from Greek Bronze, 230-220 BC. The work was commissioned for the Altar at Pergamon and was commissioned by Attalus I in honor of the Roman victory over the Gauls. The…

  • Artist and Poet

    Pity, c. 1795 by William Blake. From Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII when Macbeth what would happen after Duncan is murdered “And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven’s…