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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) 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 Paris, France...
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- 1507
Self-portrait with a friend
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...
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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. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the...
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- 1830
Death of Sardanapalus
Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) oil on canvas, dated 1827 by Eugène Delacroix, 392 x 496 cm or 12′ 1" x 16′ 3". It currently hangs in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Its dominant feature is the bed on which a nude prostrates herself and...
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- 1827
Massacre at Chios
"Massacre at Chios" (1824) is a painting by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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- 1824
The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
"The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople" (1840) is a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix.
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- 1840
Oath of the Horatii
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...
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- 1784
The Women of Algiers
The Women of Algiers (In Their Apartment) is an 1834 oil on canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix. It is located in the Louvre, Paris, France.
The painting is notable for its sexual connotations; it depicts Algerian concubines of a harem. It also...
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- 1834
Whistler's Mother
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),...
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- 1871
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
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...
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Bacchus
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...
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Death of the Virgin
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...
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St. Michael
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...
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Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (c. 1528) is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre of Paris, France.
The painting was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua. It...
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La Belle Ferronière
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...
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Ship of Fools
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...
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The Wedding at Cana
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...
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- 1563
St. John the Baptist
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...
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- 1516
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
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....
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- 1515
The Fortune Teller
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...
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- 1594
Christ at the Column
Christ at the Column is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, finished around 1475, showing the Flagellation of Christ. It is in the Louvre in Paris.
Painted in his final years, the pictures shows Antonello's...
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Virgin of the Rocks
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...
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Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page
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...
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St. George
St. George or St. George and the Dragon is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. A later version of the same subject is the St. George in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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La belle jardinière
La belle jardinière, also known as Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. It was commissioned by the Sienese patrician Fabrizio Sergardi and shows Mary, Christ and the young John...
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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan
St. Michael Vanquishing Satan is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael.
It is a large-scale and mature version of a subject he had earlier treated in the youthful miniature St. Michael (1505). Both works are located in the...
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The Battle of San Romano
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...
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- 1440
Portrait of Princess
Portrait of Princess is a tempera on panel painting attributed to the Italian Late-Gothic master Pisanello. It was probably executed between 1435 and 1449 and is also known as Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este. It is attributed to...
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Baronci altarpiece
The Baronci Altarpiece was a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. His first recorded commission, it was made for Andrea Baronci's chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Città di Castello, near Urbino. The altarpiece was...
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The Astronomer
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...
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- 1668
Venise, La Piazetta
Venise, La Piazetta is a 1835 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is currently on display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The painting depicts a promenade in Venice.
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The Bridge at Narni
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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- 1826
Triumph of the Virtues
The Triumph of the Virtues is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1502. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre of Paris.
The triumph was the second picture painted by Mantegna for Isabella d'Este's studiolo, after...
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Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (also called Napoleon Crossing the Alps, despite the existence of another painting with that name) is an 1848–1850 oil-on-canvas portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, by French artist Hippolyte Delaroche. The painting depicts...
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The Rape of the Sabines
"The Rape of the Sabines" (c. 1637-1638) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
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- 1638
The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus
"The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus" (1642-1643) is a painting by painter Claude Lorrain.
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- 1643
Entrance of Alexander into Babylon
"Entrance of Alexander into Babylon" (c. 1661-1665) is a painting by French artist Charles Le Brun.
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- 1665
The Bathers
"The Bathers" (c. 1761-1765) is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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- 1765
The Raft of the Medusa
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...
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- 1819
Hamlet and Horatio in the graveyard
Hamlet and Horatio in the graveyard is a painting created by Eugene Delacroix in 1839.
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- 1839
Frédéric Chopin
"Frédéric Chopin" (1638) is a painting by French romanticist artist Eugène Delacroix. This painting was part of a larger work that included Chopin's lover Aurore Dupin (aka George Sand).
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The Lacemaker
"The Lacemaker" (1668-1669) is a painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
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- 1669
The Dropsical Woman
"The Dropsical Woman" (1663) is painting by Dutch artist Gerard Dou.
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- 1663
Hercules and Omphale
"Hercules and Omphale" (1724) is a painting by French artist François Lemoyne.
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- 1724
The Punished Son
"The Punished Son" (1778) is a painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
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- 1778
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa
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...
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- 1804
The Church of Marissel near Beauvais
"The Church of Marissel near Beauvais" (1866) is a painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
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- 1866
Landscape with Diogenes
"Landscape with Diogenes" (1647) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
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- 1647
The Fortune Teller (Louvre)
"The Fortune Teller" (1596-1597) is a painting by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Louvre version is a copy of the original version (also painted by Caravaggio) that is now housed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
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- 1597
Winter, or The Flood
"Winter, or The Flood" (c. 1660-1664) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. This is one of four paintings in Poussin's The Seasons series.
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- 1664
Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada
"Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada" (1870) is a painting by French artist Henri Regnault.
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- 1870
Self-Portrait
"Self-Portrait" is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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- 1837
Medea (Louvre)
Medea is a painting created by Eugene Delacroix in 1862.
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- 1862
Léon Riesener
"Léon Riesener" (1835) is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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- 1835
Grande Odalisque
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...
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Louis-Francois Bertin
"Louis-Francois Bertin" (1832) is a painting by French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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- 1832
Turkish Bath
"Turkish Bath" (1862) is a painting by French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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- 1862
Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles
"Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles" (1854) is a painting by French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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