Historical Narrative

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Circle of Pieter Lastman — Woman carrying baskets up to the walls of a city, a sacrifice being prepared in the background

Circle of Pieter Lastman

Woman carrying baskets up to the walls of a city, a sacrifice being prepared in the background

Artists

Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer

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Unknown

Ernest Meissonier

Rosson Crow

Circle of Pieter Lastman

Hans Vredeman de Vries

Rebecca Solomon

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Erwin Olaf

Erwin Olaf

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon

Circle of Pieter Lastman — Woman carrying baskets up to the walls of a city, a sacrifice being prepared in the background

Circle of Pieter Lastman

Woman carrying baskets up to the walls of a city, a sacrifice being prepared in the background

Hans Vredeman de Vries — The Emperor Trajan and the widow

Hans Vredeman de Vries

The Emperor Trajan and the widow

Erwin Olaf — Royal Blood, Marie Antoinette +1793

Erwin Olaf

Royal Blood, Marie Antoinette +1793

Kara Walker — O! The Pathos of Black Womanhood

Kara Walker

O! The Pathos of Black Womanhood

Kara Walker — paper cut-out on paper

Glenn Ligon — Runaways

Kara Walker — Scene no. 15, from The Emancipation Approximation

David Levinthal — Uncle Tom's Cabin

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