» Take a walk around the European gallery. Note which works you have an instant connection to. Now, find the following work: Erasmus of Rotterdam.This is the smallest painting in the gallery. Were you moved to look at every detail because of its size or did you overlook it on your intital walk through the gallery?

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Take a walk around the European gallery. Note which works you have an instant connection to. Now, find the following work: Erasmus of Rotterdam.This is the smallest painting in the gallery. Were you moved to look at every detail because of its size or did you overlook it on your intital walk through the gallery?

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SamuelGNoble:

I think the unique juxtaposition of this work is its contrast in size. I paused and looked at it on first walkthrough simply because it was so small.