Brown and beige fragment of a floor mosaic with a brown-skinned woman with curly brown hair, a headpiece, and earrings at center, and a man smaller in scale presenting her flowers to her left

Rethinking Representation

Two scholars challenge assumptions about the origins of a Byzantine mosaic and the intent of its maker

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A small bronze sculpture of a seated boy pulling a thorn from the bottom of his foot appears set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

Spinario’s Thorn

Detail of a Honus Wagner baseball card, showing his face against an orange background, with a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape behind the figure in the background

Baseball Card Collecting’s “Holy Grail”

A detail from Thomas Cole's landscape painting "The Oxbow" set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

Questioning Cole’s Romantic Wilderness

An ancient Egyptian seated statue of Hatshepsut in limestone, with a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape behind the figure in the background

The King Herself