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Mona Lisa
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- Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in...
Liberty Leading the People
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- 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. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the...
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
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- The Virgin and Child with St 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 symbolising his Passion whilst the Virgin tries to...
Oath of the Horatii
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- Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a painting by Jacques-Louis David accomplished in 1784, before the French Revolution, which depicts the Roman salute. It grew to be considered as paradigm of neoclassical art. The painting...
Death of Sardanapalus
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- 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 bed on...
The Wedding at Cana
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- 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 painting depicts the wedding feast at Cana, a...
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, 51cm x 45 cm, and is on display at the Louvre, Paris. Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th century Dutch painting and...
Massacre at Chios
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- "Massacre at Chios" (1824) is a painting by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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.
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 just 27, the work has become an icon of French...
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...
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa
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- Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of 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...
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.
The Lacemaker
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- "The Lacemaker" (1668-1669) is a painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
The Dropsical Woman
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- "The Dropsical Woman" (1663) is painting by Dutch artist Gerard Dou.
Hercules and Omphale
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- "Hercules and Omphale" (1724) is a painting by French artist François Lemoyne.
The Punished Son
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- "The Punished Son" (1778) is a painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
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.
Landscape with Diogenes
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- "Landscape with Diogenes" (1647) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
Self-Portrait
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- "Self-Portrait" is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
Léon Riesener
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- "Léon Riesener" (1835) is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
The Coronation of Napoleon
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- The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon. The painting has imposing dimensions, as it is almost ten metres by six. The crowning and the coronation took place at Notre-Dame de...
Grande Odalisque
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- Grande Odalisque, also known as Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque, is an oil painting of 1814 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from...
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
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- The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The work was commissioned by the energetic Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the...
Virgin of the Rocks
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- The Virgin of the Rocks (sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks) is the usual title used for both of two different paintings with almost identical compositions, which are at least largely by Leonardo da Vinci. They are in the Louvre, Paris, and the...
St. John the Baptist
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- St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting. The original size of the work...
St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata
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- St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is a painting created by Giotto di Bondone in 1300.
Coronation of the Virgin
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- The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting created by Fra Angelico in 1432.
The Battle of San Romano
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- The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the battle of San Romano in 1432. The paintings are in tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long, and were...
St. Sebastian
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- St. Sebastian is a painting created by Andrea Mantegna in 1480.
The Allegory of the Liberal Arts
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- The Allegory of the Liberal Arts is a painting created by Sandro Botticelli in 1485.
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
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- The Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (c. 1451). It portrays the condottiero and lord of Rimini and Fano Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and is housed in the Musée du...
Il Condottiero
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- Il Condottiero is a painting created by Antonello da Messina in 1475.
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
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- Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione is an oil painting attributed to the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, circa 1514-1515. Baldassarre Castiglione was a literary figure active at the court of Urbino in the early years of the 16th century....
St Michael slaying the devil
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- St. Michael slaying the devil is a painting created by Raphael in 1518.
The Entombment of Christ
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- The Entombment of Christ is a painting created by Titian in 1520.
The Beautiful Nani
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- The Beautiful Nani is a painting created by Paolo Veronese in 1560.
The Coronation of the Virgin
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- The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting created by Tintoretto in 1564.
Christ carrying the cross
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- Christ carrying the cross is a painting created by Lorenzo Lotto in 1526.
The Pastoral Concert
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- The Pastoral Concert is a painting created by Titian in 1509.
Kitchen Scene
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- Kitchen Scene is a painting created by Joachim Beuckelaer in 1566.
Still-life with Carp
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- Still-life with Carp is a painting created by Abraham van Beyeren in 1650.
Game and Hunting Accessories Arranged on a Window Ledge
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- Game and Hunting Accessories Arranged on a Window Ledge is a painting created by Jan Weenix in 1691.
Still-life with Ham
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- Still-life with Ham is a painting created by Floris van Schooten.
Still-life with Peeled Lemon
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- Still-life with Peeled Lemon is a painting created by Jan Davidsz. de Heem.
Fruit and Vegetables with a Monkey, Parrot and Squirrel
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- Fruit and Vegetables with a Monkey, Parrot and Squirrel is a painting that was created by Frans Snyders in 1620.
Still-life with Candlestick
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- Still-life with Candlestick is a painting created by Barend van der Meer in 1680.
Two Monkeys Stealing Fruit from a Basket
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- Two Monkeys Stealing Fruit from a Basket is a painting created by Frans Snyders in the 17th century.
A Table of Desserts
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- A Table of Desserts is a painting created by Jan Davidsz de Heem in 1640.
Whistler's Mother
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- Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 cm × 162.4 cm),...
Ship of Fools
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- Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch which shows prodigal humans wasting their lives instead of spending it in "useful" ways. The painting is dense in symbolism: The painting as we see it today is a fragment of a...
La Belle Ferronière
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- La belle ferronnière is a name that has been applied to two Renaissance portrait paintings. The first (illustrated), though sometimes simply known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman, may be of Lucrezia Crivelli, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, and is...
Bacchus
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- Bacchus, formerly Saint John the Baptist, in the Musée du Louvre is based on a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci but executed by an unknown follower, perhaps in Leonardo's workshop. The drawing Sidney J. Freedberg assigns...
Death of the Virgin
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- The Death of the Virgin (1606) is a painting completed by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It is a near contemporary with the Madonna with Saint Anne now at the Galleria Borghese. It was commissioned by Laerzio Alberti, a papal lawyer, for his...
The Fortune Teller
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- The Fortune Teller is a painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio, the first from 1594 (now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome), the second from 1595 in the (Louvre museum, Paris...
Self-portrait with a friend
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- The Self-Portrait with a friend (also known as Double Portrait) is a painting by Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. In this double portrait the artist himself stands behind an unknown man (a friend or a pupil, perhaps Polidoro da Caravaggio...
St. Michael
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- St. Michael is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael (c. 1505). It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. In a bleak landscape with the silhouette of a burning city in the distance, St. Michael has just forced the Devil to the ground...
Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page
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- Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt with his Page (c. 1607-1608) is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Louvre of Paris. Alof de Wignacourt joined the Order of the Knights of Saint John (the Knights of Malta) in 1564, aged seventeen, and...
