Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
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Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898 · [ca. 1893–1896]
Personifying history, a red-robed woman calls up the spirits of the past from the cavernous ruins of a temple below. The figure to her right carries a bound codex book and the torch of science.
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