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Artist: Thomas Cole
A classical city is swallowed by fire and violence in Thomas Cole's The Destruction. This short tour reads the painting's colossal broken guardian, its crowded bridge and its burning harbor as a single scene of an empire collapsing.
Artist: Hasegawa Tōhaku
A docent-led reading of Hasegawa Tōhaku's Pine Trees, a pair of sixteenth-century folding screens in ink on paper, considering how a pine grove emerges from and dissolves into mist.
Artist: Raphael
A docent-led reading of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, painted in Italy around 1512 to 1513. The tour explains the Madonna and Child, Saint Sixtus II and Saint Barbara, using the supplied identification and collection record, and stays honest about how much the sources do and do not explain.
Artist: Jan van Eyck
A gallery tour of Jan van Eyck's double portrait of a wealthy Bruges merchant and his wife, painted in 1434 and now in London.
Artist: Maker unknown (mosaic icon)
A mosaic icon of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, set on the Resurrection Gate in Moscow. The work follows the Anastasis, or Harrowing of Hell, tradition: Christ raises Adam and Eve from their tombs. The mosaic's maker and date are not documented in the surviving record; the supplied photograph was taken in 2025.
Artist: Maker unknown (sculpted by Praxiteles)
A marble cult statue of the nude goddess, made by Praxiteles in the fourth century BC and bought by Knidos after Kos refused it. The original is lost; the photograph here shows the excavated temple site where its marble base and fragments were found.
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