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Exhibition Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, Moche Pottery

Square featuring figural designs taken from ancient ceramics on a teal background.
Left: Harvard Art Museums / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA. Bequest of David M. Robinson. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Center: Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey. Gift of Stephanie H. Bernheim and Leonard H. Bernheim Jr. in honor of Gillett G. Griffin, 2005-127. Photo by Justin Kerr. Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. Right: Illustration adapted from a photo by Museo Larco, Lima, Peru, ML013653

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Drawing, full body of a person with curly black hair, turned to the left and leaning against a stick

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Ornate canopy bed, with draped blue curtains forming the canopy and blue upholstery on the gold bed frame

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A statue of naked man petting a wolf and holding a large stick, photographed inside the Getty Villa gallery

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