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Works of Art (15)

Cameo cup fragment with lovemaking scene, first half of 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass (81.10.349)
Choes (jug), ca. 450–400 B.C.; red-figure, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (37.11.19)
Headrest, 19th–20th century, Somalia; Somali (?) people, Wood (1979.206.31)
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, ca. 1615, Frans Hals (Dutch), Oil on canvas (14.40.605)
Odalisque in Grisaille, 1824–34, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Workshop (French), Oil on canvas (38.65)
Paying the Hostess, mid-1670s, Pieter de Hooch (Dutch), Oil on canvas (58.144)
Poet Virgil in a Basket, 1525, Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish), Engraving (41.1.23)
[Reclining Odalisque], 1858, Roger Fenton (British), Salted paper print from glass negative (1997.382.34)
Ring stone with four goddesses and four date palms, Mauryan period, 3rd–2nd century B.C., India, Stone (2000.284.10)
Seated Couple, 16th–20th century, Mali; Dogon peoples, Wood, metal (1977.394.15)
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, probably 1633–34, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (46.160)
The Accommodations of Desire, 1929, Salvador Dali (Spanish), Oil and cut-and-pasted printed paper on cardboard (1999.363.16)
Two Lovers, 1630; Safavid, Riza cAbbasi (ca. 1565–1635), Isfahan, Iran, Tempera and gilt paint on paper (50.164)
Ear Ornament or Pendant (Mamuli), 19th century, Kanatangu district, eastern Sumba Island, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Gold (1990.335.4)
Lidded Saltcellar, 15th–16th century, Sierra Leone; Sapi-Portuguese, Ivory (1991.435a,b)

Thematic Essays (8)