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Slide 1 (0:00)

  • Diego Velazquez, Juan de Pareja. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971. Photo: Metmuseum.org.  More here.
  • Gorham Manufacturing Company, Silver pitcher, 1882. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, William Cullen Bryant Fellows Gifts, 2013 (2013.26). Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Augustus Saint Gaudens, Sherman Monument, dedicated 1903. Photo copyright © 2015 Dianne L. Durante. More here.

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  • Grave marker of Aristonautes, ca. 350-325 B.C. Athens, National Archeological Museum. Photo: Marsyas / Wikipedia. More here.
  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, ca. 1770. National Gallery, Washington, gift of Mrs. Mellon Bruce in memory of her father, Andrew W. Mellon. More here.
  • Carlo Bugatti, Writing desk, ca. 1902. Photo: MetMuseum.org

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  • Georg John Lober, Hans Christian Andersen, 1956. Central Park, New York. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image: Wikipedia. More here.

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  • Augustus Saint Gaudens, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1882. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest and David Schwartz Foundation Inc. Gift, 2016. Image: MetMuseum.org.
  • Douwe Blumberg, America’s Response Monument (a.k.a. The Horse Soldier), 2011.  Liberty Park, New York. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Zenos Frudakis, Freedom, 2001. 16th and Vine Streets, Philadelphia. More here. Photo copyright © 2019 Dianne L. Durante

Slide 5 (0:37)

  • Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry. Photo copyright © 2016 Dianne L. Durante
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie, 1853. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Image: MetMuseum.org. More here.

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  • Steel – Electricity (Brooklyn Bridge and docks), mural at the Museum of American Finance, New York. Photo copyright © 2016 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Terracotta ornament from 365-367 Jay Street, 1892. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante
  • Art Deco bronze grill from the Chanin Building, 1929. Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street, New York. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Old and new Kosciuszko Bridges, Brooklyn Queens Expressway. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here, and via the Bridges tag in the Obsessions cloud on this site.
  • Integrity Protecting the Works of Man, pediment of the New York Stock Exchange, Broad Street, New York. Photo copyright © 2018 Dianne L. Durante. More here.

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Slide 10 (1:17)

  • Sofonisba Anguissola, Marchese Massimiliano Stampa, 1557. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo: Walters Art Museum. More here.
  • Albert Edelfelt, The Parisienne (Virginie), 1883. Joensuu Art Museum, Finland.
  • Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolaas Rubens, ca. 1625. Red, black and white chalk. Albertina, Vienna. More here.

Slide 11 (1:32)

  • Ettore Ximenes, Giovanni da Verrazano, 1909. Battery Park, New York. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Fitz Henry Lane, Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor, 1862. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, Erving and Joyce Wolf Fund, Raymond J. Horowitz Gift, Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, by exchange, and John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1978. Photo: MetMuseum.org
  • N.C. Wyeth, Paul Revere’s Ride, 1922.  The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. More here.
  • Dennis Miller Bunker, The Brook at Medfield, 1889. Gardner Museum, Boston. Image: Wikipedia. More here.
  • Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Burnett Memorial Fountain, dedicated 1937.  Central Park, New York. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante. More here.

Slide 12 (1:52)

  • Richard McDermott Miller, Wind on Water, 1992. Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Photo copyright (c) 2002 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Metope with Athena, Heracles and Atlas from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, 5th century BC.  Archeological Museum, Olympia.
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  • Bernini, Faun Teased by Children, ca. 1616-1617. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo: MetMuseum.org.More here.
  • Raymond Kaskey, Portlandia, 1985. Portland, Washington. Photo: Amy Meredith / Wikipedia More here.
  • Zenos Frudakis, Clarence Darrow, 2017. Rhea County Courthouse, Dayton, Tennessee. Photo copyright © 2017 Zenos Frudakis. More here and here.

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  • Ralph Earl, Elijah Boardman, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Susan W. Tyler, 1979. Image: MetMuseum.org. More here.
  • Jean Beraud, The Wait, n.d. Musee d’Orsay, Paris. Image: Wikipedia. More here.
  • Parmigianino, Antea, 1520s-1530s. Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte. Image: Wikipedia. More here.

Slide 16 (3:00)

  • Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Chocolate Girl, ca. 1744-1745. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Photo: Wikipedia More here.
  • Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623-1624. Rome, Galleria Borghese. Image: Galleria Borghese / Wikipedia. More here.
  • Jan Gossaert, Portrait of a Merchant, c. 1530. Washington, National Gallery, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. Photo: National Gallery. More here and here.

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  • Cave painting from Altamira, ca. 18,000-15,000 BC (give or take a few millennia). Image: AltamiraMuseum / Wikipedia
  • Frederick MacMonnies, Nathan Hale, 1890. City Hall Park, New York. Photo copyright © 2008 Dianne L. Durante. More here.
  • Grave marker of Aristonautes, ca. 350-325 B.C. Athens, National Archeological Museum. Photo: Marsyas / Wikipedia. More here.
  • Henry Lerolle, The Organ Rehearsal, 1885. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George I. Seney, 1887. Photo: MetMuseum.org . More here.

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  • Daniel Chester French, America, 1907. U.S. Customs House at Bowling Green, New York. Photo copyright © 2008 Dianne L. Durante.  More here and here.