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"title": "Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s",
"description": "Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (September 13-November 2, 1997); Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR (November 20, 1997-February 6, 1998); John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (February 27-April 24, 1998).",
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"description": "London, Trafalgar Galleries, 1976: \"In the Light of Caravaggio,\" cat. no. 6 (as \"St. Jerome in Contemplation, a Skull, Book and Bone on the Table before Him).",
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"description": "Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum 9/13 - 11/2/97. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Art Center 11/20/97 - 2/6/98. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 2/27 - 4/26/98. \"Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s.\" no. 17, pp. 56-57.",
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"description": "Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (Wynnstay, Denbighshire, Wales) (sold, Wyngetts Auction Galleries, Wrexem, Wales, May 12, 1971, lot 489, as \"Anonymous: Man Reading with Human Skull at Side,\" to Trafalgar Galleries).",
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"description": "Not all subjects are easy to identify. This museum long thought that the subject was the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, largely because tears are part of the standard representation of this ancient thinker. However, ter Brugghen omits the other crucial key to identifying Heraclitus--a globe over which he weeps. Instead, the book and skull indicate that the figure is Saint Jerome, known for translating the Bible into Latin. The artist probably chose to show Jerome crying to intensify his penitence.",
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