It’s a heightened, metaphorical work that theorizes that in order to truly heal we need to have unprejudiced and forthright conversations with ourselves about our past and our role in our failed relationships.

“These facts reinforce the serious concerns that Mr. Smith is not running an impartial and unprejudiced investigation and prosecution,” he wrote.

“I don’t believe,” she wrote, “that any Elizabethans, even Shakespeare, were what might now be called ‘nice’ — liberal, unprejudiced, unselfish.”

But the entire painting is otherwise unpopulated, and Rorbye’s rendering is so unprejudiced, so tenderly disinterested, that it feels unviolated by the raging, maudlin mess that is human subjectivity.

All young people, especially students of color, deserve access to an unprejudiced and accurate education that explores the histories and stories of our most marginalized communities.