
Francois Le Diascorn :: The Rodin Museum, Paris, France, 1977 / src:
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Ramón Masats :: The Prado Museum, Madrid, 1964. Vintage print. / src: museo reina sofia
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Model of the Moon at Field Columbian Museum,
Chicago, ca. 1894

Ancient Assyrian Portal Guardian [Griffin. Human-headed winged lion (lamassu). Excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Assyria] in the British Museum, ca. 1860
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David ‘Chim’Seymour :: Bernard Berenson, American art collector of Lithuanian origin, looking at Pauline Borghese’s sculpture by Antonio Canova,
Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy, 1955 / source: Magnum Photos

Louise Dahl-Wolfe :: Model with Brancusi Sculptures, Gelatin Silver Photograph, 1939 [behind model is Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space]/ source: thehighboy.com
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Herbert List :: Operation des Schielens (Surgery for Squint), Vienna, Austria, 1943-1944 |
From the photo-essay on “Praüscher’s Panoptikum”, a grotesque chamber of horrors dating from 1870, it contained wax figures of historical personages, inventions, events, crimes, medical abnormalities and anatomical depictions. It was already banned at this time and by the end of the war was destroyed by the SS shortly thereafter.
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