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Artist: Paul Gauguin
A Tahitian girl lies face down on a bed while a dark hooded figure watches from behind. Gauguin painted this scene in Tahiti in 1892, giving it the Tahitian title Manao tupapau, which is usually translated as The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch.
Artist: Ampaire Edger
A digital photograph by Ampaire Edger records young men breaking stone at a rocky summit in central Uganda, using a pneumatic drill to supply Kampala's construction industry.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery walk through Van Gogh's Arles sunflowers: fifteen blooms at every stage of life, painted in August 1888 to welcome Paul Gauguin, and read here through the National Gallery's own account of the picture.
Artist: John William Waterhouse
A gallery walk through Waterhouse's mythological painting The Awakening of Adonis, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, drawing on the supplied object record, its 1900 Royal Academy reception, and the curatorial reading that links it to the artist's series of encounters between gods and mortals.
Artist: Maker unknown
A stone bust of King Ramesses II, carved in ancient Egypt's New Kingdom, shown wearing the nemes headdress and a ceremonial false beard. Photographed on display at the Shanghai Museum's ancient Egypt exhibition in July 2025, it survives without its lower body, its uraeus cobra and its original nose. The sculptor is not named in the surviving record.
Artist: John Ruskin (author); Effie Gray, John Everett Millais, William Milbourne James (contributors)
A 1947 book of unpublished letters among John Ruskin, Effie Gray and John Everett Millais, held at the National Library of Poland. This docent tour treats the volume as a document rather than a painting, and it stays close to what the supplied record actually establishes.
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