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Pieter Brueghel's masterpiece, The Tower of Babel, 1563
I do not call one greater and one smaller,
That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
..................................-- Walt Whitman
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John Singer Sargent's preliminary design for his portrait of the Wyndham sisters
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