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He says the painting is based on an actual doll hospital he came across in Rome.

The attic painting is based on an actual work produced at the turn of the last century by the British artist Gwen John.

For instance, a sinuous strip of Art Deco wall painting is based on the Vitruvian wave, a pattern dating back to the classical period.

DE MONTEBELLO: I think the reality, since we have been talking about the Euphronios vase, is that the knowledge that we have of Greek vase painting is based 98percentt on vases that were never excavated by licensed archaeologists.

The photographs on which this painting is based are also in the show, as is a mirrorlike piece made from poured liquid glass, and an image -- of a war-ruined bridge in Bosnia -- that is both a painting and a print.

The painting is based on a 15th-century picture by Paolo Uccello called "The Miracle of the Profaned Host," in which Christians break down a door to capture and execute a family of Jews believed to have tried to destroy a sacred communion wafer.

Furthermore, up until 60 years ago, all instruction in painting was based on copying old masters.

I was studying the life of Géricault and examining the real historical event upon which the painting was based.

The painting was based on a photograph taken in 1935 when the then Princess Elizabeth was about eight or nine-years-old.

The painting was based on the real-life experience of Ruby Bridges, one of the first black children to attend a white school in Louisiana.

Brown's painting was based on a reprint of Foss's original, featured in a 1990 book collection of the artist's work.