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Curator's Voice: Reclamation 11

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

Maria Berrio: The Augur

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

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

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

Director's Voice: Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse

Director's Voice: George Washington at the Battle of Princeton

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

Curator's Voice: Black-figure Panathenaic Prize Amphora

Curator's Voice: Dainichi Nyorai

Curator's Voice: Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor