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TitleAllegory of Virtue and Vice (The Choice of Hercules) SubjectAllegory – Virtue Allegory – Vice DescriptionAt a crossroads, Hercules encountered Vice, who offered a path of ease and pleasure, and Virtue, who indicated a rugged ascent leading to true happiness a moral lesson underlined by the motto on the entablature at upper left: [HO]NOR ET VIRTUS/[P]OST MORTE FLORET (Honor and Virtue Flourish after Death). The long talons of Vice have ripped the hero’s stocking. A jagged knife leans against the breast of the sphinx...
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Richmond Barthé American, 1901-1989 The Boxer, 1942 Bronze 47.6 cm (18 3/4 in.) 18 in. (figure); 3/4 in. (base) Simeon B. Williams Fund, 1948.79 American Art Not on Display http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111442 Website: Art Institute of...
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Painter Painting ©Bernard Gamoy Date made: 2005 Materials: oil on linen Measurements: 155 x 320...
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TitleSiva Nataraja DescriptionShiva, in his form of Nataraja or Lord of the Dance, was adopted by the imperial Cholas as their family deity. For this reason, images of Shiva performing his cosmic dance became widely popular in South India where the Cholas ruled from the early tenth century. The dance symbolizes the five activities of Shiva as the cosmic deity: creator, preserver, destroyer, remover of illusion and dispenser of grace. The great god tramples the prostrate dwarf Apasmarapurusa, the demon of ignorance. Found in a temple near...
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Henry Kirke Brown American, 1814-1886 The Filatrice (The Spinners), 1850 Bronze 50.8 x 30.5 x 17.8 cm (20 x 12 x 7 in.) Unsigned Roger McCormick Endowment, 1989.59 American Art Gallery 172 http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111442 Website: Art Institute of...
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John Singer Sargent American, 1856-1925 Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82 Oil on canvas 56.5 x 84.5 cm (22 1/4 x 33 1/4 in.) Signed lower left: “John S. Sargent” Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1217 American Art Gallery 171 http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/110761 The Art Institute of...
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