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Young Man at His Window by Caillebotte
An 1875 oil on canvas, Young Man at His Window, by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-96) the French impressionist painter. Here a man watches a lady walking in the street below. Once again, the artist combines a sense of depth in the scene with strict...
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Commodus as a Young Man
A bust of Roman emperor Commodus (r. 180-193 CE) as a young man. From Ostia. (Vatican Museums, Rome)
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J. E. B. Stuart as a Young Man
Photograph of J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) as a young man, probably around the time of his West Point graduation, circa 1854.
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Rachmaninoff at his Piano
A c. 1936 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) at his piano at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
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Prokofiev at the Piano
A 1918 photograph of the composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) sitting at the piano. Bain News Service. (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)
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Edvard Grieg at the Piano
A c. 1907 photograph taken by E. Bieber of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) at the piano. (Bergen Public Library, Norway)
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Bronze Statue of a Young Man from Ziphteh
In ancient Greece and Rome, bronze and marble statues adorned public palaces and the sanctuaries of gods. Over centuries, almost all the bronze statues were melted down for re-use. This is one of the very few surviving examples from Egypt...
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William Penn as a Young Man
William Penn at age 22, oil on canvas portrait by Peter Lely, 1666.
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian composer best known for his song-cycles and his grand, sweeping symphonies, which often require expanded orchestras for their full performance. Mahler, a composer of Late-Romantic music and...
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Mozart's Piano
The fortepiano played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) when he was in Prague in 1787. (Czech Museum of Music, Prague)
