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How Do We Look?
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
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The Most Enduring Art Form
Our compulsion to create images of ourselves is a defining artistic motif of humanity.
Recording Social Norms
Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do.
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