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George W. Vanderbilt by James McNeill Whistler

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/45880-george-w-vanderbilt

A close friend of Whistler, George Washington Vanderbilt II commissioned this full-length portrait in 1897 to hang in Biltmore House, his enormous château on 125,000 acres of wilderness near Asheville, North Carolina. The artist quickly responded, „I could not ask for a more sympathetic subject than yourself and therefore am greatly pleased at the prospect of painting your portrait!“
Washington, D.C., 1980, no. 255, repro. 1981 American Portraiture in the Grand Manner

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The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855‒1280 | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/stories/videos/thief-who-stole-my-heart-material-life-chola-bronzes-south-india-c-855-1280

As part of this six-part lecture series, Vidya Dehejia, discusses the work of artists of Chola India who created exceptional bronzes of the god Shiva, invoked as “Thief Who Stole My Heart.�
at the center of a flourishing ocean trade route between Aden and China, and the manner

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