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| x Venus de Milo |
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Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed...
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| x Mona Lisa |
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The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited,...
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| x Winged Victory of Samothrace |
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures...
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| x Liberty Leading the People |
Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies...
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| x The Virgin and Child with St. Anne |
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the Virgin tries to...
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| x Oath of the Horatii |
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Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and trhe public, and...
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| x Death of Sardanapalus |
Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an oil painting on canvas, dated 1827 by Eugène Delacroix. Its dimensions are 392 x 496 cm or 12′ 1" x 16′ 3". It currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Its dominant feature is a large divan,...
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| x The Wedding at Cana |
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This refers to the work of art of the 16th century.
The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana) is a massive painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter, Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The...
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| x The Astronomer |
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The Astronomer is a painting finished about 1668 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is oil on canvas, 51 cm x 45 cm (20 x 18 in), and is on display at the Louvre, Paris.
Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th century Dutch...
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| x Massacre at Chios |
"Massacre at Chios" (1824) is a painting by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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| x The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople |
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"The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople" (1840) is a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix.
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| x Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss |
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Antonio Canova's statue Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical devotion to love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the lifeless...
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| x The Raft of the Medusa |
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The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French...
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| x The Bridge at Narni |
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The Bridge at Narni (in French: Le pont de Narni) is an 1826 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is currently on display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The painting is a product of one of Corot's youthful sojourns...
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| x Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa |
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Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa (Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an 1804 painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Antoine-Jean Gros to portray an event during the Egyptian Campaign. The scene shows Napoleon...
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| x The Rape of the Sabines |
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"The Rape of the Sabines" (c. 1637-1638) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
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| x The Lacemaker |
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"The Lacemaker" (1668-1669) is a painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
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| x The Dropsical Woman |
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"The Dropsical Woman" (1663) is painting by Dutch artist Gerard Dou.
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| x Hercules and Omphale |
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"Hercules and Omphale" (1724) is a painting by French artist François Lemoyne.
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| x Nymph with Scorpion |
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| x The Punished Son |
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"The Punished Son" (1778) is a painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
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| x The Church of Marissel near Beauvais |
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"The Church of Marissel near Beauvais" (1866) is a painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
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| x Wounded Niobid |
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"Wounded Niobid" (1822) is a sculpture by Swiss-born French artist James Pradier.
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| x Landscape with Diogenes |
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"Landscape with Diogenes" (1647) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
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| x Self-Portrait |
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"Self-Portrait" is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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| x Medea (Louvre) |
Medea is a painting created by Eugene Delacroix in 1862.
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| x Léon Riesener |
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"Léon Riesener" (1835) is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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| x Hermaphroditus Asleep |
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"Hermaphroditus Asleep" is a marble sculpture of a sleeping Hermaphroditus. It is a Roman copy from the Imperial Era (2nd century CE) after a Greek original. The mattress (Carrara marble) was sculpted in 1619 by Bernini, commissioned by...
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| x Antonio Canova |
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Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔnjo kaˈnɔva]; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the...
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| x Caravaggio |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of...
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| x Jacques-Louis David |
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Jacques-Louis David ( /ʒɒkˈlwiˈdɒvid/) (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a...
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| x Leonardo da Vinci |
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been...
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| x Johannes Vermeer |
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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (Dutch pronunciation: [joˈɦɑnəs jɑn vərˈmɪːr];1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in...
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| x Raphael |
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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its...
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| x Hieronymus Bosch |
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Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.əˈrɒnɨməs ˈbɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦijeːˈɾoːnimʏs ˈbɔs]; born Jheronimus van Aken Dutch pronunciation: [jeɪˈɾoːnimʏs vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; (c. 1450 – 9 August 1516), was a Dutch painter. His work is known for its use of...
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| x Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: [ʒan‿oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and...
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| x Nicolas Poussin |
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Nicolas Poussin (pronounced: [ni.kɔ.lɑ pu.sɛ̃]; 15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to...
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| x Donatello |
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 – December 13, 1466), also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that...
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| x Eugène Delacroix |
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the...
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| x James Pradier |
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James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier (1790 – June 4, 1852) was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.
Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver....
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| x Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot |
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ba.tist ka.mij kɔ.ʁo]) (July 17, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid...
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| x Paolo Veronese |
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Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. He adopted the name Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari, and became known as ...
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| x Théodore Géricault |
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Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the...
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| x Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter.
He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his...
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| x Philippe de Champaigne |
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Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. In...
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| x Gerard Dou |
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Gerrit Dou (April 7, 1613 – February 9, 1675), also known as Gerard and Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his...
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| x Antoine-Jean Gros |
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Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835), also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was both a French History and neoclassical painter.
Born in Paris, Gros began to learn to draw at the age of six from his father, who was a miniature painter,...
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| x Pisanello |
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Pisanello (c. 1395 – probably 1455), known professionally as Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian...
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| x Hippolyte Delaroche |
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Hippolyte Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856), commonly known as Paul Delaroche, was a French painter born in Paris. Delaroche was born into a wealthy family and was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, who then painted life-size histories...
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| x Lorenzo Bartolini |
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Lorenzo Bartolini (7 January 1777 – 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail which led him furthermore in the future, while he drew inspiration from the...
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| x Rembrandt |
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin], 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history...
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| x François Lemoyne |
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François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter.
He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. He studied under Louis Galloche and stayed until...
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| x Mantegna |
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The Musée du Louvre presents an important retrospective exhibition of the work of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), the main representative of Renaissance ideas in northern Italy.
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| x Marie d’Orléans 1813–39 |
Marie d’Orléans 1813–39 was a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from April 18, 2008 to July 21, 2008.
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| x Picasso - Delacroix |
Picasso - Delacroix is a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from Oct. 9, 2008 to Feb. 2, 2009.
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| x The Netherlandish Renaissance - Drawings from the Budapest Museum |
The Netherlandish Renaissance - Drawings from the Budapest Museum is a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from Oct. 9, 2008 to Jan. 12, 2009.
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| x French Bronzes - From the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment |
French Bronzes - From the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightment is a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from Oct. 24, 2008 to Jan. 19, 2009.
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| x Pierre Boulez - Oeuvre: Fragment |
The Louvre invites Pierre Boulez - Oeuvre: Fragment. This is a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from Nov. 6, 2008 to Feb. 9, 2009.
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| x Abildgaard (1743-1809) |
Abildgaard (1743-1809) is a temporary art exhibit at the Louvre Museum from Nov. 13, 2008 to Feb. 9, 2009.
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