"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowlege is the image of existence and things mean and splendid exist alike."--Francis Bacon, 1620. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

No-o-mún-nee, Walks in the Rain, a Warri... George Catlin

Riverbank Gentian (Gentiana affinis) Mary Vaux Walcott

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz William Couper

Palazzo Barberini, Rome James Carroll Beckwith

Crossing the Atlantic (Return Home) Henry Ossawa Tanner

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