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Sailor with Guitar
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Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…

Contributor:

Jacques Lipchitz

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Cubism, Modernism, Crafts, Modernity, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Sculpture of abstract figure standing and holding a guitar.
Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…

Contributor:

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1850

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Scholarship, Modernity, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.