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Durer inscribed the painting as follows:"Thus I, Albrecht Durer from Nuremburg, painted myself with undying colors at the age of 28 years" (Sayre 260).
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"A remarkable aspect of this painting is Luther's sideways glance, which suggests a peronality capable of concentrating one more than one thing at one" (Sayre 263).
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"This self portrait by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli testifies to the transformation in the concept of the artist" ("Baccio Bandinelli").
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"The painting was created for the pleasure chamber of Federico Gonzaga in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua" (Sayre 320).
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"Henry is in the clothes that he wore when he married the 25-year-old Anne of Cleves in 1540" (Sayre 273).
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"Such heads were usually commissioned upon the death of an oba by his successor, so that the dceased leader might continue to influence his community" (Sayre 287).
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"Charles's posture, his left hand on his hip, and his right extended outward where it is supported by a cane, adopts the positions of the arms in court dance" (Sayre 348).
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"No other Velazquez painting is as tall as Las Meninas, which suggests that the back of the canvas in the foregound, in fact is Las Meninas itself" (Sayre 349).
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"Musee de Louvre, Paris. In his ermine cornation robes, Louis both literally and figuratively looks down his nose at the viewer" (Sayre 343).
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"Boucher's playful imagery, evident here in the elaborate frills decorating Madame's dress" (Sayre 369).
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"Parkinson's drawings provide some of the earliest archeological records of Polynesian life" (Sayre 377).
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This is a picture of Marie-Antoinette wearing a chemise, which means dress.
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"Ink drawing" (Sayre 381).
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"While on display in Brooklyn, the painting was smeared with white paint by an angry 72-year-old spectator" (Sayre 511).
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"A short segment of Touch" (Sayre 517).
