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Door Boss: Bust of a Satyress
Northern Italian

Casket
Italian; Sicily

Sinan Reis and Hayreddin Barbarossa
Italian

Madonna and Child
Italian

Young Woman with Hunter
Artist unknown (Italian, active 18th century)

Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus
Northern Italian; possibly Verona

Two Monks in a Landscape
Italian or Spanish

Mercury
Italian

Father Time
Italian

Portrait of a Warrior
Artist unknown (Italian, active 19th century)

Capital with Eagles
Southern Italian

Capital with Bull and Worker
Italian

Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: The Assumption of the Virgin
Italian; possibly Venice

Head of a Man
Italian

Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: Bishop Saint
Italian; possibly Venice

Italian Family, Chicago
Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940

Head (one of a pair)
Artist unknown (Italian, active 18th century)

Backplate
Northern Italian

Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: Bishop Saint
Italian; possibly Venice