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Friday, January 13, 2012

13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Faces And Masks

A statue of Euripides (480-406 B.C.), Greek philosopher and dramatist, holding a "tragic" mask.

January 13, 2012 There's a show on renaissance portraiture up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The author takes the opportunity to reflect on different conceptions of portrait art.

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