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Educator Daphne Beneke surveys the diverse subjects, materials and purposes of sculpture over time, looking at Bodhisattva Maitreya (2nd-3rd century), Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (modeled 1878–81; cast after 1936) by Edgar Degas and Rock Form (Porthcurno) (1964) by Barbara Hepworth, from the Museum's sculpture collection.

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Encounters with the Collection: Raphael's "Madonna and Child with Book"

Encounters with the Collection: Raphael's "Madonna and Child with Book"with Book"

Meditative Moments: An Introduction to Art and Meditation

Meditative Moments: An Introduction to Art and Meditation

Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum with Nicholas Penny: Giambattista Tiepolo

Giambattista Tiepolo's "Allegory of Virtue and Nobility"

Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum with Nicholas Penny: Giovanni Paolo Panini

Giovanni Paolo Panini's "Interior of Saint Peter’s, Rome"

Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum with Nicholas Penny: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (“Il Baciccio”)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (“Il Baciccio”)'s "Saint Joseph Embracing the Infant Christ"

Cultivating Empathy Through Art

Cultivating Empathy Through Art

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "The Ragpicker"

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "The Ragpicker"

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "Still Life with Fish and Shrimp"

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "Still Life with Fish and Shrimp"

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "Madame Manet"

A Trio of Treatments: Conserving Manet's "Madame Manet"

Popova's "The Traveler"

Popova's "The Traveler"

Vigée-LeBrun's "Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky"

Vigée-LeBrun's "Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky"

Ruysch's "Nosegay on a Marble Plinth"

Ruysch's "Nosegay on a Marble Plinth"

Morisot's "In a Villa at the Seaside"

Morisot's "In a Villa at the Seaside"

Lecture: Raphael: The Making of a Master

Lecture: Raphael: The Making of a Master

Lecture: Raphael 2020: A Conversation on the Artist

Lecture: Raphael 2020: A Conversation on the Artist

Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose

Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose

Bassano's "The Flight into Egypt"

Bassano's "The Flight into Egypt"

Manet's "The Ragpicker"

Manet's "The Ragpicker"

Degas as Sculptor: Historical Context

Degas as Sculptor: Historical Context

Degas as Sculptor: Gesture and Pose

Degas as Sculptor: Gesture and Pose

Degas as Sculptor: Materials and Mixed Media Modeling

Degas as Sculptor: Materials and Mixed Media Modeling

Degas as Sculptor: Technique and Finish

Degas as Sculptor: Technique and Finish

Lecture: Not Your Parents’ Norton Simon Museum—or is It?

Lecture: Not Your Parents’ Norton Simon Museum—or is It?

Lecture: Fashioning the Feminine in 18th-Century France: Dress, Desire and Domesticity in Three Works from The Frick Collection

Lecture: Fashioning the Feminine in 18th-Century France: Dress, Desire and Domesticity in Three Works from The Frick Collection

Lecture: Female Models in the “Century of Women”: From Fiction to Reality in Chardin, Boucher and Greuze

Lecture: Female Models in the “Century of Women”: From Fiction to Reality in Chardin, Boucher and Gr

Performance: Fate and the Heroine: Dido, Queen of Carthage

Performance: Fate and the Heroine: Dido, Queen of Carthage

Lecture: Conservation of the Dido Tapestry: A New Chapter

Lecture: Conservation of the Dido Tapestry: A New Chapter

Lecture: Titian’s “Lady in White”: A Mistress of the Artist’s Soul

Lecture: Titian’s “Lady in White”: A Mistress of the Artist’s Soul

Lecture: Matisse and His Models

Lecture: Matisse and His Models

Romanelli's Dido and Aeneas Cartoons

Romanelli's Dido and Aeneas Cartoons

Lecture: From Carpaccio’s “Sant Ursula” to Titian’s “Lady in White”: The Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice

Lecture: From Carpaccio’s “Sant Ursula” to Titian’s “Lady in White”: The Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice

Lecture: Love at First Sight: Romanelli’s Dido and Aeneas Tapestry Suite

Lecture: Love at First Sight: Romanelli’s Dido and Aeneas Tapestry Suite

Pillars from the Bharhut Stupa Railing

Pillars from the Bharhut Stupa Railing

Lecture: Ellsworth Kelly: From New York to Paris and Back Again, Thrice

Lecture: Ellsworth Kelly: From New York to Paris and Back Again, Thrice

Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on a White Horse

Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on a White Horse

Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly

Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly

Lecture: Robber Baron Collectors of the Gilded Age: Morgan, Frick, De Young

Lecture: Robber Baron Collectors of the Gilded Age: Morgan, Frick, De Young

Lecture: Beyond the Pale: The Radical Realism of Degas’s “Little Dancer”

Lecture: Beyond the Pale: The Radical Realism of Degas’s “Little Dancer”

Guercino's Aldrovandi Dog

Guercino's Aldrovandi Dog

Lecture: Understanding Rembrandt at the National Gallery: A Conservator’s View

Lecture: Understanding Rembrandt at the National Gallery: A Conservator’s View

Lecture: Dan Flavin: Maximalism

Lecture: Dan Flavin: Maximalism

Lecture: Degas, Drawing and the Question of Dimension

Lecture: Degas, Drawing and the Question of Dimension

Lecture: Rembrandt and the Lure of the Renaissance

Lecture: Rembrandt and the Lure of the Renaissance

Taking Shape: Degas's Modèle Bronzes

Taking Shape: Degas's Modèle Bronzes

Lecture: Being Born into the Next World: Egyptian Mummies and their Coffins

Lecture: Being Born into the Next World: Egyptian Mummies and their Coffins

Examining Giovanni di Paolo's Branchini Madonna

Examining Giovanni di Paolo's Branchini Madonna

Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Patron Saint of Modernism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1925–1933

Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Patron Saint of Modernism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1925–1933

Lecture: Dear Little Tornado: Galka Scheyer in Hollywood

Lecture: Dear Little Tornado: Galka Scheyer in Hollywood

Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Enterprising Prophetess of the Blue Four

Lecture: Galka Scheyer: Enterprising Prophetess of the Blue Four

The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection

The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection

Lecture: From Unrecognized Genius to Global Icon: Vincent van Gogh Then and Now

Lecture: From Unrecognized Genius to Global Icon: Vincent van Gogh Then and Now

Lecture: Conversing with the Masters: Variation as an Artistic Process in Picasso’s Work

Lecture: Conversing with the Masters: Variation as an Artistic Process in Picasso’s Work

Lecture: Van Gogh's "Bedrooms": Making and Meaning

Lecture: Van Gogh's "Bedrooms": Making and Meaning

Lecture: New Light on an Old Masterpiece: Théodore Rousseau’s “Morning Effect"

Lecture: New Light on an Old Masterpiece: Théodore Rousseau’s “Morning Effect"

Lecture: “A sum of destructions”: Norton Simon Collects Picasso

Lecture: “A sum of destructions”: Norton Simon Collects Picasso

Norton Simon Collects Picasso

Norton Simon Collects Picasso

Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre

Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre

Duchamp, Warhol and Identity

Duchamp, Warhol and Identity

Vuillard in the Norton Simon Museum

Vuillard in the Norton Simon Museum

Lecture: Manet and His Writers: Baudelaire, Zola, Mallarme

Lecture: Manet and His Writers: Baudelaire, Zola, Mallarme

Lecture: Revolutions in Technique: Manet, Monet, and the Impressionists at Work

Lecture: Revolutions in Technique: Manet, Monet, and the Impressionists at Work

Lecture: James McNeill Whistler and His Mother

Lecture: James McNeill Whistler and His Mother

Lecture: "Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money": Joseph Duveen and the Building of The Huntington Art Collections

Lecture: "Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money": Joseph Duveen and

Lecture: Manet, Monet, Caillebotte and The Gare Saint-Lazare

Lecture: Manet, Monet, Caillebotte and The Gare Saint-Lazare

Lecture: Painter and Patrons: Goya's Portrait of Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna

Lecture: Painter and Patrons: Goya's Portrait of Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna

Lecture: Enter the Mandala: Mental Maps and Cosmic Centers of Himalayan Buddhism

Lecture: Enter the Mandala: Mental Maps and Cosmic Centers of Himalayan Buddhism

A Revolution of the Palette: The First Synthetic Blues and their Impact on French Artists

A Revolution of the Palette: The First Synthetic Blues and their Impact on French Artists

Fragonard’s Enterprise: The Artist and the Literature of Travel

Fragonard’s Enterprise: The Artist and the Literature of Travel

Human/Nature: Photographers Constructing the Natural World

Human/Nature: Photographers Constructing the Natural World

Édouard Manet's "Émile Zola," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Édouard Manet's "Émile Zola," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Pasadena’s Giverny: Nancy Goslee Power and the Transformation of the Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden

Pasadena’s Giverny: Nancy Goslee Power and the Transformation of the Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden

Audio: Manet's "The Railway" on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Audio: Manet's "The Railway" on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Lock, Stock & Barrel: Norton Simon’s Purchase of the Duveen Brothers Gallery

Lock, Stock & Barrel: Norton Simon’s Purchase of the Duveen Brothers Gallery

Face to Face with Judy Dater

Face to Face with Judy Dater

Monumental

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Goya's "Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna," c. 1795–1800, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Audio: Goya's "Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna," c. 1795–1800, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Powdered Pigments: A Focus on Pastels in the Norton Simon Museum

Powdered Pigments: A Focus on Pastels in the Norton Simon Museum

Learning to Look at Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum

Learning to Look at Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum

Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture

Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture

"monument" on the survival of Mrs. Reppin

"monument" on the survival of Mrs. Reppin

A Centennial Celebration: The Life of Norton Simon

A Centennial Celebration: The Life of Norton Simon

A Closer Look at Tapestries in the Norton Simon Collection

A Closer Look at Tapestries in the Norton Simon Collection

Audio: Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait,” 1889, on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Audio: Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait,” 1889, on Loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden

The Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden

Significant Objects: The Spell of Still Life

Significant Objects: The Spell of Still Life

Lesson of the Cherry Blossom: Japanese Woodblock Prints

Lesson of the Cherry Blossom: Japanese Woodblock Prints

Audio: Memling’s “Portrait of a Man,” on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Audio: Memling’s “Portrait of a Man,” on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Raphael’s “The Small Cowper Madonna” on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Raphael’s “The Small Cowper Madonna” on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Audio: Don Bachardy Draws Norton Simon

Audio: Don Bachardy Draws Norton Simon

Audio: Ruth Weisberg and her Dialogue with the Past

Audio: Ruth Weisberg and her Dialogue with the Past

Audio: Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Audio: Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Audio: Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum

Audio: Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum

Audio: The Art of War: American War Posters from the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: The Art of War: American War Posters from the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Vermeer's "A Lady Writing" Comes to the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Vermeer's "A Lady Writing" Comes to the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Indian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Indian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum

Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties

Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties

The Restoration of Francisco de Zurbarán's "Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose"

The Restoration of Francisco de Zurbarán's "Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose"

Audio: Matisse's Amours at the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Matisse's Amours at the Norton Simon Museum

Audio: Ingres's "Comtesse d'Haussonville" On Loan from The Frick Collection

Audio: Ingres's "Comtesse d'Haussonville" On Loan from The Frick Collection

Sam Francis and the Basel Murals

Sam Francis and the Basel Murals

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: An Artwork by John Cage

Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: An Artwork by John Cage

An Interview with Dina Vierny, Model and Muse to Aristide Maillol

An Interview with Dina Vierny, Model and Muse to Aristide Maillol

Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

James McNeill Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

James McNeill Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1," on Loan from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Lecture: Vermeer’s Women: Discreet Objects of Desire

Lecture: Vermeer’s Women: Discreet Objects of Desire

Live from Pasadena: Norton Simon and the Rose Parade

Live from Pasadena: Norton Simon and the Rose Parade

Audio: Vermeer’s "Woman with a Lute" on Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Audio: Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute" on Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Rembrandt Portraits in the Norton Simon Museum

Rembrandt Portraits in the Norton Simon Museum