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Title

A Dream Half Remembered

Artist

Ken Rosenthal

Physical Description

A child's head with a devil's hat on, blurry image.

Object Creation Date

2004

Accession Number

2013/2.169

Medium and Support

toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 15.44115

Secondary Keywords

costume

costume by function

events

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

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personal life events

Title

The Stake, No. 13 from 'Les Grandes Misères de la Guerre'

Artist

Jacques Callot

Artist Life Dates

1592/3-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1633

Accession Number

1972/2.365

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 15.23845

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

audiences

construction equipment

deaths

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executions

fortresses

how we live

music

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personal life events

rites of passage

shovels

smoke

tools and equipment

Title

Third Dream

Artist

Fritz Scholder

Physical Description

A purple and black lithograph of two people.

Artist Life Dates

American, 1937-2005

Object Creation Date

1981

Accession Number

2010/2.45

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 14.03484

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

events

objects we use

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planographic prints

prints

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visual works

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Title

Carting the Dead, Kerch, Crimea

Artist

Dmitri Baltermants

Physical Description

A rolling cart of the dead being wheeled away, with people surrounding.

Artist Life Dates

1912-1990

Object Creation Date

January 1942; printed 2003

Accession Number

2014/2.265

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 13.95645

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

events

funerary structures

people

people (agents)

people and culture

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single built works

single built works by function

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Title

The Death of Leander

Artist

Giulio Carpioni

Physical Description

In dark turbulent waters under a stormy sky four nude sea nymphs support the body of a long-haired man between them on a white shroud. The face of a man with kelp in his hair appears between two of the nymphs. On the right a bearded man with a trident in his right hand rides in a chariot fashioned from a seashell and pulled by two fished-tailed horses or hippocampi. Just visible in the distance behind the back of the rightmost nymph, a lofty tower rises above the waves.

Artist Life Dates

1613-1678

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1655

Accession Number

1984/1.290

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.82988

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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freewheeled vehicles

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transportation vehicles

vehicles

visual works

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Title

Growing Forms

Artist

David Smith

Physical Description

A roughly teardrop-shaped sculpture of shiny cast aluminum. Within the basic organic shape are several curls and a shape that appears to be a woman or perhaps a fetus. The sculpture sits atop a tall wooden base composed of a stack of fat disc shapes.

Artist Life Dates

1906-1965

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1939

Accession Number

1980/1.213A

Medium and Support

cast aluminum on wood base

relevance

rank 13.56645

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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Title

The birth of the Kauravas from a Mahabharata series

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Physical Description

A scene takes place in a red box, lined with black and red diamond and triangle designs for borders. In the center, a woman sites with a child in her lap. She wears a spotted dress, her hair up, and a nose ring and bindi. The child reaches one hand and places it atop her head, and the other down towards her own upward hands. Surrounding them are seven other figures. One kneels before them, offering his hands up, and another fans the woman from behind. The remaining five figures seem to play together in front of the throne on which the woman and child sit.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1969/2.19

Medium and Support

ink and opaque watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 13.05783

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Descent from the Cross

Artist

Ugo da Carpi

Physical Description

This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man's hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.

Artist Life Dates

ca. 1440 - after 1525

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1440-1535

Accession Number

1960/1.176

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 12.78899

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

descriptors

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visual works

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woodcuts

Title

Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment)

Artist

Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Physical Description

A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.

Century

2nd-3rd century

Object Creation Date

2nd century - 3rd century

Accession Number

1997/2.37

Medium and Support

stone

relevance

rank 12.34338

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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descriptors

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Title

The Labors of Hercules: The River-god Achelous (one of the set of 13 prints)

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.67

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 12.30317

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

animals

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rites of passage

the natural world

visual works

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Title

Death of Chatterton, from "Pictures of Chocolate"

Artist

Vik Muniz

Physical Description

Photograph of a drawing executed using chocolate syrup on a piece of white plexi-glass.

Artist Life Dates

born 1961

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2006/1.153

Medium and Support

Cibachrome mounted on aluminum on paper

relevance

rank 12.28178

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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descriptors

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Title

The two elders stoned by the people (one from the set of four prints, The Story

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1555

Accession Number

1956/1.51

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 12.21308

Secondary Keywords

architecture

descriptors

events

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rock

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visual works

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Title

Tobit Burying the Dead

Artist

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist Life Dates

1609-1664

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1647-1651

Accession Number

1977/2.6

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 11.90219

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

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stair components

stairs and stair components

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visual works

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Title

Three Gold Rings, from Ringed Series

Artist

Todd Hoyer

Physical Description

A bulbous vessel with narrow mouth and base. The wood is burned and cracked and circled by three gold bands, two of which overlap.

burnt wood vessel with gold

Artist Life Dates

b. 1952

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

2002/2.145

Medium and Support

eucalyptus, imitation gold leaf

relevance

rank 11.78039

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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psychological concepts

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surface marking processes and techniques

wood and wood products

Title

The Nativity of the Virgin

Artist

Sano di Pietro

Physical Description

This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.

Artist Life Dates

1405-1481

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1448-1452

Accession Number

1977/2.1

Medium and Support

tempera and gold on panel

relevance

rank 11.76198

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

drawings

drawings by method of projection

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europe (continent)

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italy (nation)

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religions

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religious visual works

siena (province)

sleeping and reclining furniture

tuscany (region)

visual works

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Title

Zapruder

Artist

John Waters

Physical Description

Twenty-four color photographs mounted in two-part artist's frame with a ninety-degree bend.

Artist Life Dates

born 1946

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1995

Accession Number

2008/2.214

Medium and Support

chromogenic print on paper

relevance

rank 11.76151

Secondary Keywords

administrators

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Title

Monument to the Lycée Chases

Artist

Christian Boltanski

Physical Description

Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1989

Accession Number

2006/1.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs

relevance

rank 11.55088

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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visual works

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Title

Democritus in Meditation

Artist

Salvator Rosa

Physical Description

A bearded man sits in a cemetery upon a stone block and leans on a sarcophagus with his head in his hand. A book sits in his lap. Sarcophagi, obelisks, and funerary urns surround him. The bones and body parts of humans and animals along with a discarded helmet and books are strewn across the foreground.

Artist Life Dates

1615-1673

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1615-1673

Accession Number

1959/1.126

Medium and Support

etching with drypoint on laid paper

relevance

rank 11.42190

Secondary Keywords

animal material

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skeleton and skeleton components

skeleton components

Title

Study of a Scene of Martyrdom or Punishment

Artist

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Physical Description

This drawing represents seven nude men in a landscape with buildings indicated on a hill in the distance. One of the figures, represented full-length and in profile, is bound to a tree or stake on the left. All of the other men appear in half-length in the right part of the drawing. A bearded man sits and gestures in the direction of the bound man. Five other men appear around the seated figure, one of whom carries two long objects over his shoulder toward the man on the left.

Artist Life Dates

c. 1495-c.1543

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1525-1575

Accession Number

2009/1.494

Medium and Support

brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 11.33546

Secondary Keywords

deaths

descriptors

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Title

Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment)

Artist

Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Physical Description

A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.

Century

2nd-3rd century

Object Creation Date

2nd century - 3rd century

Accession Number

1997/2.36

Medium and Support

stone

relevance

rank 11.15787

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Untitled (March 5th) #2

Artist

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Physical Description

Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.

Artist Life Dates

1957-1996

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

1999/2.17

Medium and Support

40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets

relevance

rank 10.63831

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Marilyn

Artist

Andy Warhol

Physical Description

Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.

Artist Life Dates

1928 - 1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1969/1.84

Medium and Support

screenprint on paper

relevance

rank 10.40079

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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Title

Marilyn

Artist

Andy Warhol

Physical Description

Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.

Artist Life Dates

1928 - 1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1969/1.85

Medium and Support

screenprint on paper

relevance

rank 10.10280

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

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Title

Marilyn

Artist

Andy Warhol

Physical Description

Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.

Artist Life Dates

1928 - 1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1969/1.86

Medium and Support

screenprint on paper

relevance

rank 10.10280

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

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the human body

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visual works

visual works by medium or technique

women

Title

Untitled (Head)

Artist

Michael Lucero

Physical Description

White earthenware “sleeping” head lying on its right cheek (right ear omitted to lay flat) with a geometric section of crown removed. The cut at the head is painted terra cotta, the cut at the neck painted with a landscape of a tree at the edge of a cliff. A forest scene set against pink mountains covers the face, and desert rock formations in silhouette cover the back of the head.

Artist Life Dates

(1953 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1985

Accession Number

2008/2.245

Medium and Support

glazes on white earthenware

relevance

rank 9.96404

Secondary Keywords

upward

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descriptors

european

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heads

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plants

settlements and landscapes

styles and periods

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vegetation and vegetation components

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visual works

visual works by subject type

wilderness

woody plants

Title

The Lord's Prayer, sheet 9 - But Deliver Us from Evil (Das Vaterunser - Sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel)

Artist

Max Pechstein

Physical Description

At viewer's left, two reclining figures lie side-by-side in a bed, covered by a sheet up to their chins. At the foot of the bed at the viewer's right, a man sits with his eyes closed and his hands on his head. To the viewer's left, in the foreground , a woman sits, crying, wiping her eyes with the back of her left hand.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1921

Accession Number

1948/1.431

Medium and Support

woodcut with hand-coloring on paper

relevance

rank 9.73341

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

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visual works

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Title

Young Girl Dreaming (Jeune fille rêvant), Plate IX, from "Transmutations"

Artist

Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Physical Description

A female figure reclines on a divan on her side with her back toward the viewer; Beneath the divan the dark background is lined with a diamond patterning. Behind the figure are textures suggesting pillows or other textiles.

Artist Life Dates

1899 - 1984

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1934-1935; printed 1967

Accession Number

1971/2.150.9

Medium and Support

clichés-verre on paper

relevance

rank 9.57848

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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visual works

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