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Circus Girl (1916) by Helene Schjerfbeck

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Kneeling Man Embracing a Standing Woman, Gustav Vigeland

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Egon Schiele, Les amants, 1909

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Käthe Kollwitz “Frau mit totem Kind / Woman with Dead Child” 1903

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Self-Portrait I, 1896, Edvard Munch

Medium: lithography,paper

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Mary Magdalene as a hermit, detail (1865)  Francesco Hayez

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The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice. But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last.

On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior [Time is a devourer; man, more so].

Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris: Book Third, Chapter I. Notre Dame (trans. Isabel Hapgood) Eugène Atget, Notre Dame, Paris, 1926.

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Hope, 1306, Giotto Di Bondone

Medium: fresco

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Giotto di Bondone, Starry Sky detail from the  Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, 1305

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Gustavo Millozzi. Colombi e neve, 1960

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Vitruvian Man “The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius” (ca. 1490) by Leonardo da Vinci

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Agesandro, Atanodoro e Polidoro, Laocoonte e i suoi figli, 1st century AD VS Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Estasi di Santa Teresa, Cappella Cornaro, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Roma, 1647–1652

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Head of a Youth 

Roman copy after Phidias (ca. 500 - 432 BCE)

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Weary Herakles (Farnese Hercules) based on a bronze statue of ca. 320 BCE by Lysippos

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Interior of the Pantheon (ca.1506) by Raphael

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Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns

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Bust of Alexander the Great, known as the “Inopos" 

Greek, Delos, ca. 100 BC