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When John Muafangejo was 12 years old, his father died and his mother moved their family to Epinga, an Anglican mission village on Namibia's northern border. The villiage had an art school, called Rorke's Drift, where Muafangejo took his first art classes. But this print, like many of Muafangejo's works, is both biographical and deeply political...

RiverPolitical Works

Natal Where Art School IsJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo, 1974

Ahmed Yacoubi worked during the heyday of abstract expressionism, and brought a uniquely dark, knife-worked density to the movement, earning him the patronage of the influential collector Peggy Guggenheim.

Abstract ExpressionismAbstract Art

UntitledAhmed Yacoubi, 1950

This small gouache by the beloved Indian painter Gaganendranath Tagore frames a sublime moment in cubist angles. On the back it is inscribed "I am with you always, even until the end of the world."

CubismClouds

ResurrectionGaganendranath Tagore, 1920

The Child King

Meet Louis XV. He's ten years old in this portrait by Rosalba Carriera. Young Louis was the heir apparent of France, since the death of his father in 1715. But you can't have a ten-year-old running France.

PortraitsRoyalty

Louis XV of France as DauphinRosalba Carriera, 1720 - 1721

During the Italian Renaissance it was rare for women to have access to artistic education — but by 1558 Sofonisba Anguissola had already been apprenticed to two painters of the Lombard school, and traveled to Rome to meet and learn from Michelangelo. At the time of this self-portrait, she was just 26 years old, and her career was about to explode.

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Self-portraitSofonisba Anguissola, 1558

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