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      <image:caption>Kitagawa Utamaro, Red Dragonfly and Locust, 1788</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Utagawa Hiroshige, New Year&apos;s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji, c. 1857</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Book of the Dead of Nauny, c. 1050 BCE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chalchiuhtlicue, Mexica (Aztec) stone sculpture, 15th-early 16th century</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kali, chromolithograph printed at the Calcutta Art Studio, c. 1885-95</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bronze figure of Anubis, Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BCE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Painted wooden coffin of Khnumnakht, Middle Kingdom Egypt, about 1850-1750 BCE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Terracotta amphora signed by Andokides, Athens, about 530 BCE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Terracotta neck-amphora attributed to the New York Nessos Painter, Athens, 7th century BCE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Utagawa Hiroshige, The Ferry Crossing at Sakasai, 1857</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Katsushika Hokusai, Groups of Mountain Climbers, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, about 1830-32</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ogata Korin, Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), pair of six-panel screens, after 1709</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Odilon Redon, To all appearances, it was a hand of flesh and blood just like my own, 1896</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sir Edward Burne-Jones, The Love Song, 1868-77</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, red chalk, about 1510-11</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Martin Schongauer, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, engraving, about 1470-75</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sagittarius: The Archer Who Aims at the Heart of the Galaxy</image:title>
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      <image:title>Ulysses and the Sirens: Waterhouse&apos;s Bird-Women, Not Mermaids</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse, 1891</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May by John William Waterhouse, 1908</image:caption>
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