"I look at works and I wonder, 'What was your day like? Who are you?'"
Art preparator Theresa King-Dickinson ruminates on the universal privilege of art appreciation.
Connections: Privilege
Art preparator Theresa King-Dickinson ruminates on the universal privilege of art appreciation.
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Art Mentioned
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Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
Pedestal attributed to designs by Charles-François Rossigneux
1861
Egon Schiele
Publisher Wiener Werkstätte
1910
Hieronymus Bosch
ca. 1475
Honoré Daumier
1864
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
1776
Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)
1696
Giovanni Paolo Panini
1757
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
1650
Paul Cézanne
ca. 1892–96
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
ca. 1520–25
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1868–69
Faith Ringgold
1985