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    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the *Divina Commedia* (1855/1872)
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    Music & Arts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s *Les Malheurs des immortels* (1922)
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    Music & Arts

    Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)

    Looking Backward: Images of *Rückenfiguren* (ca. 1497–1925)
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    Landscapes, Music & Arts

    Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
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    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    “Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

    *The Little Journal of Rejects* (1896)
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    Design & Typography, Humour & Satire, Music & Arts

    The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
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    Music & Arts, Landscapes

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
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    Design & Typography, Natural World, Music & Arts, War

    A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
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    Design & Typography, Music & Arts

    Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

    Modernity in the Rainforest: *Man and his Desire* (1917)
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    Music & Arts, Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)

    *A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)
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    Natural World, Music & Arts

    A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
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    Emotion & Expression, Music & Arts

    Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
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    Music & Arts, Emotion & Expression

    The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

    Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s *Preliminary List* (1900)
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    People, Music & Arts

    Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)

    *Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes* (1801)
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    Music & Arts

    Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)

    Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)
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    Music & Arts

    Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

    Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: *Composition* (1905 edition)
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    Music & Arts

    Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition)

    William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)
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    Geometry & Diagrams, Music & Arts, Architecture

    William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)

    Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905)
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    Humour & Satire, Music & Arts

    Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905)

    The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)
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    Music & Arts

    The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)

    Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895)
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    Music & Arts, People

    Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895)

    The Tours of Dr Syntax (1809–1821)
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    Music & Arts, Humour & Satire

    The Tours of Dr Syntax (1809–1821)

    Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
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    Technology, Music & Arts

    Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)