Listen · 0:44 · Roman portraits
What happened to her hair?
Two small holes above the forehead once held a separate marble hairpiece — the fashion of a decade, missing for centuries.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Three works from the demo set come from the Met’s open-access collection: a Roman portrait, a Japanese print and a French marble. Images: open access (cc0) for the images used. Museum website.
Listen · 0:43 · Japanese prints
Where is the mountain?
Look past the wave. In the trough, small and white, sits Mount Fuji — the subject of the whole series, hidden behind the sea.
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Read · 19th-century sculpture
A father who couldn’t.
Dante gave him a canto. Carpeaux gave him two tons of marble: a starving father biting his own hands while his children beg him to eat them instead — and he can’t.
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