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Butterfly Nose Ornament
The Moche lived across a large region of modern-day Peru from 200 - 900 CE. Unlike many ancient civilizations who unified under one ruling system of government, the Moche people...
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Builders, 1974
Jacob Lawrence was an American painter and printmaker known for his works exploring and celebrating African American life, past and present. As a teenager, Lawrence moved with his...
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Circumferences
Victor Higgins was born in Shelbyville, Indiana in 1884. At only 15 years old, using allowance money that he had saved up for years and against his parent's wishes, Higgins left...
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Researching to Heal: Developing Better Tools to Fight Cancer
Dr. Thomas O’Sullivan, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, shares about the work of his research group. His team...
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Everyday Holiness: Gabriel Reynolds
“I pray regularly and seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for my family but also for Notre Dame and for the students. So that’s very important, and it gives one...
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Untitled Scorch Work (Figure)
In 2017, the Snite Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of Cole's work entitled Making Everything Out of Anything: Prints, Drawings, and Sculptures by Willie Cole. The exhibiton...
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Drawings, Prints, People
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“Lockdown Literature,” a pandemic reading list by Prof. Barry McCrea
Listen to Italian Studies faculty affiliate, Prof. Barry McCrea, deliver a radio essay on teaching literature in a pandemic for Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday Miscellany....
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Black Indian, Buffalo Soldiers
Chicago, IL painter and sculptor Bernard Williams creates works in multiple media that strive to "address our connections and disconnections within a turbulent human history"...
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Spring
Natalia Goncharova was a major figure in multiple early 20th-century Russian Modern art movements. She was a controversial, unique, and well-known person in Moscow and Saint...
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Four Rectangles Oblique
This sculpture was created by George Rickey, an American artist from South Bend, Indiana known for his kinetic or moving sculptures. Coming from a family of mechanical engineers...
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Dessert Plate with a Scene from the Fable of the Wolf and the Stork
This dessert plate, and the set it is a part of, was produced by the Sèvres Manufactory. Founded in 1740 in Vincennes, France, the porcelain manufactory was moved to Sèvres,...
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