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| Antonio Canova |
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Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 – October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement...
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio |
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...
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| Jacques-Louis David |
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Louis David |
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly 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 change in...
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| Francis of Assisi |
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St. Francis of Assisi |
Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, the...
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| John the Baptist |
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St. John the Baptist |
John the Baptist (Hebrew: יוחנן המטביל, Yo-hanan ha-matbil, Arabic: يحيى Yahyá AND يوحنا Yūhannā al-mamadan in arabic, Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ Yokhanan) (died c 30) was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of Baptism at the...
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Louvre Museum |
The Musée du Louvre or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central...
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| 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...
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| Mary Magdalene |
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Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala (original Greek Μαρία η Μαγδαληνή, Heb., Miriam) is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as one of the most important women in the movement of Jesus. As a follower, Mary...
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| Johannes Vermeer |
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Johannes Vermeer |
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life....
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| 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, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together...
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Amman, Jordan |
Amman (pronounced /ɑːˈmɑːn/), sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the capital city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a city of 2,525,000 inhabitants (2008 estimate), and the administrative capital and commercial center of Jordan. It...
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| Muhafazat `Amman | ||||
| Muhafidhiyat El `Asima | ||||
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| Hieronymus Bosch |
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Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs bɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦieːˈɾoːniməs ˈbɔs]; born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken [jəˈrun ɑnˈtoːnɪsoːn vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and...
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| Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres |
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃ːɡʁ]) (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 Jacques-Louis David...
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| Venus de Milo |
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Aphrodite of Milos |
Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Αφροδίτη της 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 at some time between 130 and 100 BCE, it is...
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| Nicolas Poussin |
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Nicolas Poussin (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. Until the 20th century he remained the dominant inspiration for...
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Donato di Niccolo Bardi |
Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; c. 1386 – December 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in...
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La Joconde |
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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St. Anne |
Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna, from Hebrew Hannah חַנָּה or Channah, meaning "favor" or "grace.") of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. Her name...
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| Blessed Virgin Mary |
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Miriam |
Mary is the Mother of God because Jesus is God and Mary is the Mother of Jesus. He loves Her as His Mother. Mary is the greatest of God's merely human creatures. She was His Masterpiece of Grace when She walked the earth. She is now His...
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| The Blessed Virgin Mary | ||||
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| Eugène Delacroix |
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Eugene Delacroix |
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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| Eugne Delacroix | ||||
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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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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot |
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (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-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in...
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| Whistler's Mother |
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Portrait of the Artist'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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| Paolo Veronese |
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Paolo Caliari |
Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19, 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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Sebastian |
This article discusses the Christian saint. For other uses, see Sebastian.
Saint Sebastian (died c. 288) was a Christian saint and martyr, who is said to have been killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He is...
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Saint Michael |
Michael (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל, Micha'el or Mîkhā'ēl; Greek: Μιχαήλ, Mikhaḗl; Latin: Michael or Míchaël; Arabic: میکائیل, Mikā'īl) is an archangel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He is viewed as the field commander of the Army of God. He is...
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| Winged Victory of Samothrace |
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a third century B.C. 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...
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| Liberty Leading the People |
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La Liberté guidant le peuple |
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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| Théodore Géricault |
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Theodore Gericault |
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 pioneers of the...
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| GT Interactive |
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GT Interactive Software Corporation (Good Times or GTI) was an American video game publisher and distributor, which later developed both video games and PC games.
GT Interactive ceased to exist in December 1999 when Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA...
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| Lady of Auxerre |
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The small (65 cm high) limestone Cretan sculpture called the Lady of Auxerre, (or Kore of Auxerre), at the Louvre Museum in Paris depicts an archaic Greek goddess of c. 650 - 625 BC. It is a Kore ("maiden"), perhaps a votary rather than the maiden...
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| 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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| Philippe de Champaigne |
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Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Flemish Baroque era painter of the French school.
Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. In 1621 he moved to Paris, where he...
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| Gerard Dou |
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Gerrit Dou |
Gerard Dou, also known as Gerrit and Douw or Dow (April 7, 1613–February 9, 1675), 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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| Antoine-Jean Gros |
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Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835), also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was a French neoclassical painter.
Born in Paris, Gros began to learn to draw at the age of six from his father, who was a miniature painter, and showed himself...
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| 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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| 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...
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| Bande à part |
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Band of Outsiders |
A beautiful young woman (the famous actress Anna Karina) meets two young men who convince her to help them rob her aunt. A surreal version of a Hollywood gangster movie set in 1960's Paris, Bande å Part contains wonderful dance scenes, whimsical...
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| 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...
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| La Belle Ferronière |
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La Belle Ferroniere |
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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| 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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| 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...
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| 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...
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| Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre |
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Belphegor - Le fantome du Louvre |
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre) is a 2001 French feature film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé. It is based on a novel by Arthur Bernède. It is the third dramatized adaptation, following the first film in 1927, and a...
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| The Da Vinci Code |
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 film directed by Ron Howard, which is based on the bestselling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was one of the most anticipated films of 2006, and was previewed at the opening night of the Cannes Film...
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| 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, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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....
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| Death of Sardanapalus |
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Mort de Sardanapale |
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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| 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...
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| The Women of Algiers |
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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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| The Wedding at Cana |
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The Wedding Feast 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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| Borghese Vase |
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The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market; it is now in the Louvre Museum.
Standing 1.72 metres tall and with a...
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| Rembrandt |
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn |
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His...
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| Venus and Cupid with a Satyr |
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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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