Main Cover Image The Mauritshuis:
Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665-1675
Artist: Johannes Vermeer, (Dutch 1632-1675)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 44.5 x 39 cm
Permanent Collection: The Hague, Mauritshuis
Image Courtesy: The Hague, Mauritshuis

The Mauritshuis Image:
Title: View of Delft, c. 1660-1661
Artist: Johannes Vermeer, (Dutch 1632-1675)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 96.5 x 115.7 c
Permanent Collection: The Hague, Mauritshuis
Image Courtesy: The Hague, Mauritshuis

The Latest Caravaggio Image:
Title: Apollo the Lute Player,
Artist: Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio (Italian 1571-1610)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 96 x 121 cm
Private Collection
Image Courtesy: Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
in association with Whitfield Fine Art, London

Crosscurrents Image:
Title: Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775 - 1851)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 92.3 x 122.8 cm (36 3/8 x 48 3/8 in.)
Widener Collection
Permanent Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Image Courtesy: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Jasper Johns Image:
Title: Flag, 1958
Artist: Jasper Johns (American b. 1930)
Medium: Pencil and Graphite Wash on Paper
Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 12 in.
Collection of Barbara Bertozzi Castelli
Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Photo: Jamie M. Stukenberg / Professional Graphics Inc., Rockford, Illinois
Image Courtesy: Art Institute of Chicago

Pompeii Tales from an Eruption Image:
Title: The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1777
Artist: Pierre-Jacques Volaire
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
Purchased with funds from
the Alcy C. Kendrick Bequest
and the State of North Carolina, by exchange.
Image Courtesy: Birmingham Museum of Art

Peter Paul Rubens Genius at Work Image:
Title: Christ and the Adulterous Woman,
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish 1577-1640)
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: 143.5 x 194 cm
Permanent Collection: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Image Courtesy: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Tales from Denmark Image:
Title: Russian Sailing Ships outside Helsingør Harbour
Artist: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish 1783-1853)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Photo: Kuvataiteen keskusarkisto / Centralarkivet för Bildkonst
/ Central Art Archives / Hannu Aaltonen
Permanent Collection: Ateneum Art Museum Coll. Tobiesen
Image Courtesy: Ateneum Art Museum

Views from the Uffizi Image:
Title: Adoration of the Magi, circa 1500
Artist: Sandro Botticelli (Italian 1445-1510)
Medium: Tempera on Panel
Permanent Collection: The Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Image Courtesy: Huntsville Museum of Art

The Impressionist Landscape Image:
Title: The Doge's Palace at Venice, 1908
Artist: Claude Monet (French 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 39 in.,
Permanent Collection: Brooklyn Museum
Gift of A. Augustus Healy
Image Courtesy: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Samuel McIntire Image:
Title: George Washington, From the West Gate of Washington Square, 1805
Artist: Carved by Samuel McIntire (American 1757-1811)
Medium: Painted Pine
Permanent Collection: Deposited by the City of Salem
Committee of Public Property, 1919 Peabody Essex Museum
Photograph by Dennis Helmar.
Image Courtesy: Peabody Essex Museum

Takashi Murakami Image:
Title: Tan Tan Bo, 2001
Artist: Takashi Murakami (Japanese-American b. 1963)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Mounted on Board
Dimensions: 3/4 x 212 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.,
Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
© 2001 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. all rights reserved
Image Courtesy: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Gertraud Möhwald Image:
Title: Julian III, 2002
Artist: Gertraud Möhwald (German 1929-2002)
Medium: Clay, Shards, Glazes, Paper
Photographer: George Meister, Courtesy of Galerie b15
Collection of Candice B. Groot, USA
Image Courtesy: Gardner Museum

Martín Ramírez Image:
Untitled (Abstract), ca. 1948-1963
Artist: Martín Ramírez (1895-1963)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Collection of Susan M. Yecies
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth, New York
Image Courtesy: Milwaukee Art Museum

The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance Image:
Title: The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance
Author: Edward Muir
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0-674-02481-8
Image Courtesy: Harvard University Press

Coming Next Month Image Van Gogh Painted with Words:
Title: Olive Trees, 1889
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch 1853-1890)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 51 x 65.2 cm (20 1/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Permanent Collection: National Gallery of Scotland
Image Courtesy: Morgan Library and Museum
Exhibit: Painted with Words at the Morgan Library and Museum through January 6, 2008