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A work made of schist.

Jaina Tirthankara Chandraprabha Standing in Meditation (Kayotsarga), 12th century

A light-skinned woman with lightish hair pulled back stands in partial profile, wearing an oversized wrap-around sweater with bell sleeves and a geometric print, hands together. She looks seriously at the viewer.

Gundvor Berg in Her Studio, 1926

André Kertész

A work made of box construction.

The Eagle, the Arrow, and the Dolphin, c. 1960

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on panel.

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

Adriaen van der Spelt

A work made of low-fire clay, underglazes, glazes, metal, gold leaf, luster, and glass.

La Linda Nasca, 2011

Kukuli Velarde

A work made of oil on masonite.

Desert Forms, 1957

Hughie Lee-Smith

A colorful wedding scene with a dark-skinned bride in red and a groom in black at center, their backs to the viewer. A minister cloaked in black stands between them, a dense wall of flowers or perhaps a floral pattern behind him. The group is flanked by two figures and panels of geometric stained glass.

The Wedding, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of bronze.

Violet Sargent, Modeled 1890, cast c. 1908

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Bright abstract print featuring a geometric background in cream, black, and gray with semitransparent shapes superimposed upon it: two blue blobs, a red-brown oblong shape, and a prominent yellow rounded shape with three nearly circular holes in it.

Lyrique No. 19, 1952

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

The Feast [central part], from The Story of Artemisia, 1607/30

Antoine Caron

A tapestry depicting a fountain that features two nude females holding a platform on which another nude female lies, her arm around a moose.

The Petitions [right part], 1607/30

Antoine Caron

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Tapestry (Four Servants), c. 1650

Jan van Leefdael

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

The Crossing of the Granicus, from The Story of Alexander the Great, 1619

Karel van Mander, II

A work made of cotton, wool, and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Pomona, Figure design 1882, background design 1898, made 1906

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Large Leaf Verdure with Balustrade, Animals, and Birds

Large Leaf Verdure with Balustrade, Animals, and Birds, 1550/75

A work made of wool, slit, single dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave.

Large Leaf Verdure with Animals and Birds, 1525/50

A work made of wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave. warp: count: 5 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.9–1.2 mm weft: count: varies from 11 to 34 wefts per cm; wool: s-ply of two, three, and four z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.7 mm; silk: pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.7–1.2 mm.

A Falconer with Two Ladies and a Foot Soldier, c. 1500

A work made of hemp, wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave.

The Lovers, 1490/1500

A work made of wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave with some 2 : 2 interlacing in alternate alignment of some gilt metal strip-wrapped silk wefts. warp: count: 10 warps per cm; wool: s-ply of three z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.8 mm weft: count: varies from 38 to 76 wefts per cm; wool: single z-spun elements; s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.2–0.5 mm; silk: pairs of z-twisted elements; three yarns of z-twisted elements; four yarns of s-twisted elements; s-ply of two z-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; three yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; z-ply of three s-twisted elements; diameters: 0.3–0.5 mm; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk: gilt-metal strip wrapped in an s-direction on an s-ply of two z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.3–0.35 mm.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene (“Noli me tangere”), 1485/1500

A work made of linen, wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave. warp: count: 10 warps per cm; linen: s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–0.5 mm. weft: count: varies from 28 to 64 wefts per cm; wool: single z-spun elements; s-ply of two z-spun elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-spun elements; diameters; 0.25–0.65 mm; silk: four elements possibly with a slight s- or slight z-twist; three z-twisted elements; s-ply of two z-twisted elements; pairs of s-ply of two z-twisted elements; three yarns of s-ply of two z- twisted elements; z-ply of two s-twisted elements; four yarns, two of s-ply of two z-twisted elements and two of z-ply of two s-twisted elements; two to four yarns of z-ply of two and three s-twisted elements; diameters: 0.2–0.65 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of s-ply of two z-spun wool elements and s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements; paired yarns of s-ply of two z-twisted silk elements and z-spun wool clement; diameters; 0.3–0.6 mm; gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk: gilt-metal strips wrapped in an s-direction on an s-twisted silk element; s-ply of two yarns: each a z-ply of two s-twisted yarns of gilt-metal strips wrapped in an s-direction on a z-twisted silk element; diameters: 0.3–0.65 mm.

The Holy Family with the Infant Christ Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist, 1485/1525

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