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Notable Honorees François Boucher

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Kara Walker: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
Constantin Brancusi: Torso of a Young Girl
The Family of Man sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, featuring abstract bronze geometric forms with circular openings, stands on grass with tall field grass and sky in the background.
The marble statue of David by Michelangelo stands in a domed gallery in Florence, Italy, depicting a nude male figure in a contrapposto pose.
Power Figure (Nkisi N'Kondi: Mangaaka)
Victory stele of Naram-Sin
Auguste Rodin: The Kiss
Side view of Auguste Rodin's marble sculpture The Kiss, showing two nude figures embracing and seated on a rough stone base.
Praxiteles: Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Chinese sculpture during the Han dynasty examined
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Statue of Zeus at Olympia
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Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
French sculptor
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François-Gaspard-Balthasar Adam
French sculptor
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
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Christo
Bulgarian artist
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Filippo Caffieri
Italian sculptor
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Nesiotes
Greek sculptor
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Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
French sculptor
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Francesco da Sangallo
Italian sculptor
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Piero del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
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Enoch Wood
English potter
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Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
Portrait of Miranda July in a black blouse, standing beside a patterned wall with one hand raised near her hair.
Miranda July
American writer, film director, and artist
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Giovanni Battista Foggini
Italian sculptor
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Hermon A. MacNeil
American sculptor
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
German sculptor
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Eduardo Paolozzi
British artist
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James Earle Fraser
American sculptor
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Coosje van Bruggen
American artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

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