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Curator's Voice: Brig on the Water

Director's Voice: Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet

Director's Voice: Center of Creation (Michael) by Mario Moore

Director's Voice: The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David and studio

Curator's Voice: Black-figure Panathenaic Prize Amphora

Curator's Voice: Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor

Director's Voice: Elizabeth Allen Marquand by John Singer Sargent

Curator's Voice: Statuette of Hermaphrodite

Curator's Voice: Cup with Bacchic motifs in high relief

Curator's Voice: Untitled (Landscape)

Former Curator's Voice: Fragmentary lid from the coffin of Wadj-shemsi-su

Curator's Voice: Untitled, from Oda a la Necrofilia