Letter M
Urs Graf (c. 1485 - 1527/28), Swiss, born Solothurn canton, Switzerland
16th century
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/258580
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title: Temple of Jupiter, Azani, Phrygia
artist: Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=32877
title: Frieze, from "Chasses et Feuillages"
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/38922
Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (notes on "Artempo" and "Geleucht," right page)
Otto Piene (1928 - 2014), German, born Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany
Colroed marker and black pen on paper
2007
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/372399
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title: Charles Godfrey Gunther
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M3018.1
Coin of Elis or Olympia
Bronze
250-191 BCE
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/168096
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title: Charles and Lavinia Stratton
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M3163.2
View of the Pantheon, Interior
Francesco Piranesi (1750 - 1810), Italian, born Rome
18th-19th century
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/279991
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title: Engraving
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/56867
title: Collar
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/96543
Sestertius of Marcus Aurelius
Bronze
2nd century CE
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/178867
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Lion, after Canova
Unidentified Artist
Plaster
19th century
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/99956
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title: Untitled (transfer drawing for Bear Creek Canyon, Denver, Colorado)
artist: George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=3397
Untitled (young girl wearing dress posed sitting on couch in living room)
Martin Schweig (20th century), American
1957
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/132873
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title: Engraving: Monograms of two letters
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/41599
title: Portrait of Frans Snyders, from the Icones Principum Virorum
source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
notes: Research in Progress
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/6216
Small Study of a Head in Oriental Headdress
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1664), Italian, born Genoa, Italy
17th century
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/233444
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