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The Baule people believe that all individuals have spirit mates in the ‘other world'. Under normal circumstances, these spirit spouses reside in their own place and aid the individual. However, due to certain circumstances, the spirit mate may become…

Many of William Hogarth’s prints call attention to social ills within 18th-century British society, thereby paving the way for healing. Here, Hogarth represents the dire effects of gin consumption, which had risen steeply in the first decades of the…

Comprising a stack of plastered white shirts speared by three black metal rebars, this work was created in response to the 1988 mass murder of male workers at a banana plantation in Colombia. Similar to the white work shirts the plantation workers…

A selection from The Golden Legend: Selections

Nan Goldin is an artist whose work cannot be separated from her personal experiences. She often photographed her close friends and acquaintances, and in several instances, turned the camera on herself. Her obsession with depicting the events of her…

In this masterful drawing by Filippino Lippi, Christ's body is supported on the edge of his tomb by a man (either Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus) while angels bearing the three nails and crown of thorns reverently support Christ's arms. The drawing…

The picture's title is explained by the pomegranate in Mary's hand: this should be understood as symbolizing Christ's Passion, the wealth of seeds conveying the fullness of Christ's suffering. A comparison of this painting with Botticelli's earlier…

Audrey Flack depicts a celebrated statue of the Virgin Mary made by the Spanish Baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706), venerated to this day in Seville. Borne by penitents and accompanied by hymns of sorrow, the statue Macarena Esperanza (Our…

This painting, together with Rothko's "The Syrian Bull," was exhibited in 1943 at the Third Annual Exhibition of Modern Painters and Sculptors at Wildenstein Gallery in New York City, where they attracted the attention of Edward Alden Jewell of the…

A knife in the lower left corner draws attention to the artist's inscription, a curiously cruel association with the torture taking place. Agatha, subjected to a series of gender-specific tests and torments, emerged virtuous and victorious. In a work…