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Black glazed terracotta vessel with a short, curved handle on one side. Visible cracks indicate fragmentary repair.

Mug, about 460 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of wood and pigment.

Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), Mid–late 19th century

Luluwa

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl with Large Diamond-Shaped Area Interior with Dotted Lines and Diamonds, and Interlocking Stepped Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Title Page, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of lithograph in black on buff wove paper.

The Tailor, from Arts et Métiers, 1838

Bernard Gaillot

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper.

A Moor Caught by the Bull in the Ring, plate 8 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Narrow, vertical print of a Japanese woman in partial view, wearing a billowing pink-orange kimono and holding a yellow umbrella.

Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate One, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of brass.

Head (Uhunmwun Elao), 18th/early 19th century

Edo

Color photograph of a cemetery, a large open grave in the foreground with a rumpled tarp and pile of gravel nearby. The grave is filled with water and marine life, including several starfish.

The Flooded Grave, 1998–2000

Jeff Wall

A work made of book with woodcuts and letterpress in black on cream laid paper.

The Art of Wrestling: Eighty-Five Pieces (Ringer Kunst: Fünff und Achtzig Stücke), 1539

Lucas Cranach, II

A wide-mouthed drinking cup glazed in black with two handles extending from opposite sides.

Skyphos (Drinking Cup), 410-400 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oil on canvas.

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1799

John Ritto Penniman

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper.

The Moors had settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open, plate three from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of oil on canvas.

Drive in the Knife, May 1943

Matta

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper.

Another way of hunting on foot, plate two from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of acrylic, silkscreen ink, and diamond dust on linen.

Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys, 1980

Andy Warhol

A work made of black crayon on off-white wove card.

Group of Trees, n.d.

Paul Dougherty

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