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Recurrence
9/19/2007

Recurrence

September 19, 2007–January 20, 2008

In the third-floor manuscript gallery, Recurrence will complement the Déjà Vu? exhibition. Curators from the Walters’ Egyptian, Asian and ancient Greek collections will draw together approximately 30 works that reveal aspects of image repetition and reuse in each of the cultures they study. Visitors will explore the ways in which artists from vastly different places and periods returned time and again to the same trusted images. They will also discover, through the study of images such as the mother and child, how distant cultures, for their own distinct reasons, created images that appear strikingly similar. Armed with the knowledge gained from these observations, visitors will be encouraged to seek out other examples of repetition in the museum’s permanent collections.

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