Image Credits

Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido), Two studies of a Standing Man with a Sword (Alexander the Great); verso: Studies of a Leg, an Arm, a Hand, and a Figure's Neck, ca. 1601, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photograph provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, www.metmuseum.org)

William A. Mitchell, Rack Picture for Dr. Nones, 1879, Art Institute of Chicago. (Photograph provided by Art Institute of Chicago, https://www.artic.edu/)

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Roman, Pont du Gard, late 1st century BCE, near Nîmes, France (Photograph © Allan T. Kohl/Art Images for College Teaching)

Edouard Manet, The Railway (detail), 1873, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Egyptian (Mamluk), Mosque Lamp, ca. 1360, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy of Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

Juan Gris, Fantômas (detail), 1915, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Rembrandt van Rijn, Three Trees (detail), 1643, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (Photograph provided by the Yale University Art Gallery)

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Carolingian, Evangelist Matthew (detail), from the Freising Gospels, second half of the 9th century, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (Photograph provided by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

Edmonia Lewis, Bust of Dr. Dio Lewis, 1868, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (Photograph provided by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

Peruvian (Cuzco), Virgin of Bélen (detail), ca. 1700-1720, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (Photograph provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, www.lacma.org)

Gabonese (Kota), Reliquary Figure (Mbulu-Ngulu), 19th century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (Photograph provided by the Yale University Art Gallery)

Gilbert Stuart, Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates) (detail), 1793-1794, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Santiago Calatrava Valls, Quadracci Pavilion, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1994-2001, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Photograph by Derek D. Churchill)​​

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"[Portrait of an unidentified woman sitting]," The Baltimore Collection, (image courtesy the Museum Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museum, and Press, www.library.udel.edu)

Captain John Bonner. The Town of Boston in New England , 1722 (image courtesy the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Online, https://www.masshist.org)

Qavavau Mannumi, b. 1958, titled Birds Holding World, Moon, dated 1980-1990, crayon and marker on paper.  Museums Collections, Gift of Frederick & Lucy S Herman Native American Collection

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Everett Shinn, "The Mummied Head," Gil Blas (Philadelphia), 6 November 1895 (image courtesy the Delaware Art Museum, www.delart.org)

Francis Davis Millet, ca. 1910, image courtesy the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu)

Pueblo Indian Selling Pottery, New Mexico, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library, (image courtesy the New York Public Library, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org)

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Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait (detail), 1889, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Gabonese (Kota), Reliquary Figure (Mbulu-Ngulu), 19th century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (Photograph provided by the Yale University Art Gallery)

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed (detail), 1630, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Herzog & de Meuron, National Stadium ("The Bird's Nest"), 2004-2008, Beijing, China (Photograph by Lawrence Nees)

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (detail), 1936, photograph, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516)

​Kajita Hanko, Love Letter (Kesobumi), ca. 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photograph provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, www.metmuseum.org)

Christopher Rose, Door, Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail, 2012, accessed via FlickrCommons, https://www.flickr.com/commons

Ib Aarmo, The forbidden city - Beijing, 2010, accessed via FlickrCommons, https://www.flickr.com/commons