Main Cover Image: Title: George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) Artist: Gilbert Stuart, 1796.
Medium: Oil on canvas. Permanent Collection: National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian Institution
Anonymous loan. Image Courtesy of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Tales from the Easel Image: Title: The Shoppers, 1908 Artist: William Glackens Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 60  inches Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA, Gift: Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Image Courtesy of The Columbus Museum

Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls Image: Inscribed Stele, Tell Dan, referring to the "House of David"
9th century B.C.E., ©Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Courtesy The Canadian Museum of Civilization

Love from the Hermitage Image: Title: Pastoral Scene Artist: François Boucher, 18th century
Medium: Oil on Canvas Image Courtesy: De Nieuwe Kerk

Master Engraver Alfred Capredoni Image: Title: Dark Blue with Bubbles II Perfume Bottle Artist: Alfred Capredoni
Medium: 24 % Lead Crystal Dimensions:  12.7 x  10.2 cm diameter Courtesy Capredoni Crystal Inc.

Fernand Khnopff Image: Title: Portrait de Marie Monnom 1887Artist: Fernand Khnopff
Medium: Huile sur toile/Oil on Canvas. Dimensions: 50 x 50
Permanent collection: Paris, Musée d’Orsay. Image Courtesy: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

Auction Action Image: Title: Nature Morte a la Pasteque, 1962, edition of 160 (Bloch, 1098).
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Signed and numbered "124/160 Picasso" in pencil l.r.
Medium: Color linocut on paper with "ARCHES" watermark, Dimensions: 23 X 28 ½ in. framed.
Estimate $22,000-24,000 Image Courtesy Skinner, Inc. Boston MA

Next Edition Image: Title: Mosaic Fragment of Saint Peter from the Basilica of Saint Paul's Outside-the-Walls. 5th Century. Medium: Mosaic Dimensions: 74 x 54 x 5. Reverenda Fabbrica of Saint Peter, Vatican City State. Conservation courtesy of Florence D'Urso, in honor of Reverend Monsignor Peter G. Finn, Rector St. Joseph's Seminary, and in honor too of all of the dedicated priests of the Archdiocese of New York. Image Courtesy: The San Diego Museum of Art.

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