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York. Georges Braque, The Portuguese. 1911. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY. Pablo Picasso, Man with a Clarinet. Thyssen-Bornernisza Museum, Madrid, Spain. © 1995 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SPADEM, Paris. Nimatallah/Art Resource, NY. Georges Braque, Woman with a Mandolin. 1910. © ARS. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain. Nimatallah/Art Resource, NY. Pablo Picasso, The Aficionado. 1912. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY. Georges Braque, Le gueridon. © 1995 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Art Resource, NY. Pablo Picasso, Landscape at Cera. Summer 1911. 25% x 19% ins., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Photograph by David Heald ©The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York [FN 37.538]. Marc Chagall, Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Henri Rousseau, The Muse Inspiring the Poet (M. Laurencin and G. Apollinaire). Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY.
Life Magazine cover (October 20, 1972). Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Life Magazine © Time Warner Inc. Doorway from the transept of the monastery church of Moutiers-Saint-Jean, Burgundy. On tympanum, Christ crowns the virgin; statues possibly of Merovingian kings, Clovis (left) and Clothar (right). Gothic style. Stone, originally polychromed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1932 and 1940 (32.147, 40.51.1-.2). Adam and Eve, from The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M. 917, p. 138. ©The Pierpont Morgan Library 1995. Mouth of Hell, from The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, M. 945, f. l68v. ©The Pierpont Morgan Library 1995. Medieval Stained Glass, thirteenth century. The Dove returns with an olive twig in her beak to announce the end of the Flood. From the Noah Window at Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. Engaged capital, carved in high relief with two crowned heads. (Possibly Henry Il and Eleanor of Aquitaine.) Church of Notre Dame du Bourg, Langon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, Purchase, 1934 [34.115.4ab]. Stone Effigy of King John. Used with the kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester Cathedral. Tombs of the Plantagenet Kings. Richard I the Lionhearted, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Il Plantagenet. Gothic sculpture. Abbey, Fontevrault, France. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. View of the facade, Notre Dame la Grande Cathedral, Poitiers, France. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY. Exterior view of the cathedral—facade. Reims Cathedral, Reims, France. SEF/Art Resource, NY.
Unknown Artist (after Andrea del Verrocchio), Bust of a Lady. Plaster and stucco, painted and gilt. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 196 [65.177]. Leonardo da Vinci, Ginerva de’ Benci (obverse). Circa 1474. 1514 x 1414 ins., oil on panel. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. © 1994 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper. S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. Scala/Art Resource, NY. Detail of Sforzesca altarpiece—Ludovico Sjorza (called “il Moro’). Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy. Scala/Art Resource, NY. Leonardo da Vinci, Cecilia Gallerani (the’girl with the ermine”). Oil on walnut, Muzeum Narodowe Biblioteka Czartorysich, Cracow, Poland. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. Gian Cristoforo Romano, Beatrice d’Este. Marble bust. © Reunion des Musees Nationaux. Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Isabella d’Este. Drawing, Louvre, Paris, France. Scala/Art Resource, NY. Leonardo da Vinci, Due teste num. 423. Gabi-netto dei Disegni e delle Stampe Firenze. Scala/Art Resource, NY. Leonardo da Vinci, St. John the Baptist. 1513—1515. Louvre, Paris, France. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa. 1503 and 1506. 77 x 53 cms., oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY.
Drawings of masks courtesy of E.L. Konigsburg.