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"id": 311444,
"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
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"description": "The huge eyes, spindly limbs, and awkwardly laid out inscriptions are typical of the period after the collapse of the Old Kingdom, when there was no central government. Court sponsorship of the arts declined drastically during this time, and art in the provinces followed its own course. A certain folksy charm--naive and utterly unpretentious--compensates for the lack of sophistication. The two women standing behind the seated man and his wife are probably their daughters. The man\u2019s skin is painted red, the women\u2019s yellow, as was the tradition in Egypt. The inscription is a standard formula for funerary offerings on behalf of Itetioqer.",
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