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[Bloomberg Connects]( is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: Quentin Metsys the Younger. Elizabeth I of England (“The Sieve Portrait”) (detail), 1583. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena. By permission of Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Polo museale della Toscana. Photo Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena | Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963). Violin and Sheet Music: “Petit Oiseau,” early 1913. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; William Michael Harnett (American, (1848–1892). [Still Life—Violin and Music](, 1888. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund (63.85) | Zheng Xie, [Orchids and Bamboo]( (detail), Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1742. Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981 | Beverly Sky. Beverly Sky. [Autumn Birches, Pulp Painting](, 2005. From [The Art of Pulp Painting](, 2005, Hand Papermaking, publishers. United States, Washington, DC. Thomas J. Watson Library (TS1220 .A78 2005). Paper sample © 2005 Beverly Sky. | Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, October 30, 1969. Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation | Martinus Rørbye. [View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight]((detail), 1839. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007