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museum is home to the Code of Hammurabi
sculptures found in this museum include the Apollo Belvedere and Michelangelo's Dying Slave
opened to the public in 1793
Parisian art museum which features the Mona Lisa and a glass pyramid |
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Friezes removed from this building in 1812 are now housed in the British museum and are known as the Elgin Marbles
building housed a statue that holds Nike in her right hand; that statue was created by Phidias
temple with Doric columns on the Acropolis in Athens |
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| Statue of Liberty - Frederic Bartholdi |
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This work was split up into pieces so that it could be transported on the Isere to Bedloe Island
A 35 foot bronze replica of this work sits next to the Seine River
base of this sculpture is inscribed with Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus." |
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| Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci |
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This painting was re-imagined to include the phrase “Federal Reserve Note” in Jean-Michel Basquiat's version of it as a dollar bill
Andy Warhol's Thirty are Better than One features thirty copies of this painting
Marcel Duchamp added a mustache and goatee to this painting in his L.H.O.O.Q.
Its subject appears to have no eyebrows, and sits with her hands folded in front of a winding road and a distant landscape
Enigmatic Smile
Lack of Eyebrows |
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a black and white bird sits on a shelf
many of the central figures’ tongues have been replaced by daggers
a woman grieves over the dead child in her arms
another woman peers at the scene from a window while her elongated arm holds a candle
A dead man in this work bears the stigmata and his severed arm sprouts a flower and is holding a sword
a horse pierced by a spear beneath a light bulb
cow on the left with misaligned eyes
Inspired by the Condor Legion’s bombing of the titular Basque town |
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| Mount Rushmore - Gutzon Borglum |
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This project was originally conceived by historian Doane Robinson
Initially meant to depict its four figures from the waist up
was halted in 1941 with only the presidents’ faces completed
construction of it began with the drilling of six holes
South Dakota monument in which the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt |
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| Notre Dame Cathedral - Maurice De Sully |
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| Sistine Chapel - Del Dolci |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral - Wren |
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| Nighthawks - Edward Hopper |
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a small brown dog stands next to a figure on the far right holding a marching drum
a man can be seen holding a blue and yellow flag
Willen van Ruytenbruch, dressed in yellow with a white sash, stands next to the main figure, who is dressed in black with a red sash
Captain Franz Banning Cocq
A two-foot strip was removed from this painting's left side, resulting in the loss of three figures. |
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| The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali |
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Cliffs of Cadaques
white “monster,”
features melting clocks
dying tree branch, a bee, and a bunch of ants, all sitting on a wooden table
surrealist |
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| The Night Watch - Rembrandt |
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a small brown dog stands next to a figure on the far right holding a marching drum
a man can be seen holding a blue and yellow flag
Willen van Ruytenbruch, dressed in yellow with a white sash, stands next to the main figure, who is dressed in black with a red sash
Captain Franz Banning Cocq
A two-foot strip was removed from this painting's left side, resulting in the loss of three figures. |
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| Wesminster Abbey - Henry III of England |
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Benedictine foundation of Edward the Confessor, who created it to serve as a mausoleum for the royal family. |
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| Lincoln Memorial - Henry Bacon |
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| St. Peter's Basilica - Bramante (first architect); Julius II (patron) |
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It contains a large bronze door by Antonio Averulino
found in Vatican City at the burial site of its namesake, the first pope. |
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| The Birth of Venus - Sandro Botticelli |
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man produces wind from his mouth
a woman handing a red cloak to the main figure
stands nude on a conch shell
One version of this painting includes five putti flying over the central character, who is reclining on the sea, and was painted by Alexandre Cabanel.
Chloris is clinging to Zephyrus, who blows the central character to shore
goddess of love emerges on a shore
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| The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David |
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the sheet, the green rug, the papers, and the pen
Considered one of the most famous images of the French Revolution
Edvard Munch created a version of this painting including a bowl of fruit and a nude woman facing directly towards the viewer, in which the title figure is laid out on a bed
the bottom half contains a wooden box with the artist's signature on it and an inkwell on top
murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday
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