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x Annunciation Ohrid annunciation icon The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors  
The Annunciation is, in Christianity, the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God. Some Christian churches celebrate this with the Feast of Annunciation on 25 March,...
Cestello Annunciation
Annunciation
Annunciation
Annunciation
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x Last Judgment Torcellomosaic The Last Judgement  
The concept of a Last Judgment is found in all Abrahamic religions and elsewhere (for example, see Duat). In Islam, the Last Judgment is called a number of things, including yaum al-Qiyamah (literally "the Day of Standing") and God Almighty, or...
The Last Judgement
The Last Judgment
Winter, or The Flood
x Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar  
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August-December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803...
x Spanish Civil War Death of a loyalist soldier, 1936 Guernica  
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted coup d'état against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña,...
x Cupid Cupidon, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875 Amor Vincit Omnia  
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido) is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor (cognate with Kama). He is the son of goddess Venus. In popular culture Cupid is frequently shown shooting his...
Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
Cupidon
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Sleeping Cupid
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x Washington's crossing of the Delaware Jehu Eyre advised and fought alongside George Washington, with whom he crossed the Delaware in 1776. Washington Crossing the Delaware  
Washington's crossing of the Delaware, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton. After securing the army...
x Boudica Boudiccastatue Boudica and Her Daughters  
Boudica (pronounced /ˈbuːdɨkə/; also spelled Boudicca), formerly known as Boadicea (/boʊˌædɨˈsiːə/) and known in Welsh as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an uprising...
x Madonna and Child Madonna with child, oil on wood (larch-tree) Madonna of the Pinks  
The Madonna and Child is one of the central icon of Christianity, representing the Madonna or Mary, mother of Jesus and her son. After some initial resistance and controversy, the formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos) was adopted officially by the...
Madonna and Child with St. Anne
The Benois Madonna
Madonna and Child
Madonna of Bruges
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x Venus Statue Of Venus Venus and Cupid with a Satyr  
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility,who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of Roman upper classes identified her...
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Venus and Mars
Venus Anadyomene
The Birth of Venus
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x David David and Goliath by Caravaggio David with the Head of Goliath  
David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern Dawid Tiberian dɔwið "beloved", Arabic: داود‎ Dāwud) was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as...
David with the Head of Goliath
David and Goliath
David
David
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x Goliath David faces Goliath in single combat. David with the Head of Goliath  
Goliath (Hebrew: גָּלְיָת, Modern Golyat Tiberian Golyāṯ ; Arabic: جالوت , Jalut (Muslim term), جليات Julyat (Christian term)), known also as Goliath of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines), is the Philistine warrior, famous for his...
David and Goliath
David with the Head of Goliath
David Vainqueur de Goliath
x Socrates Socrates The Death of Socrates  
Socrates (pronounced /ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Sōkrátēs; c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his...
Socrates
The Death of Socrates
x Apple Blossoms, fruits, and leaves of the apple tree (Malus domestica) The Basket of Apples  
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family Rosaceae. It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. The tree is small and deciduous, reaching 3 to 12 metres (9.8 to 39 ft) tall, with a broad,...
Pommes et Serviette
Young Man with an Apple
Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes
Still Life with Apples
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x Hell Hochmittelalterliche Darstellung der Hölle im Hortus Deliciarum Manuskript (um 1180) The Gates of Hell  
In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless (for example, see Hell in Christian beliefs). Religions with a...
x Jack Pine Jack Pine  
The Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost...
x Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey van de Passe Lady Jane Grey Preparing for Execution  
Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554) was a claimant to the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Ireland. She was de facto monarch of England for just over a week in 1553. Executed on 12 February 1554, Lady Jane Grey's claimed rule of less than...
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
x John the Baptist Saint John the Baptist  
John the Baptist (Hebrew: יוחנן המטביל, Yo-hanan ha-matbil, Arabic: يحيى‎ Yaḥyá or يوحنا Yūḥannā, Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ Yokhanan) (died c 30) was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River in...
The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist
John the Baptist
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x Holofernes Judith beheading holofernes Judith and Holofernes  
Holofernes (Hebrew, הולופרנס) was an Assyrian invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, who appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. It was said that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the...
Judith Beheading Holofernes
Judith Beheading Holofernes
x Le Havre Baie-du-Havre 14 07 2005 Impression, Sunrise  
Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine section of the English Channel. It is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department and the Haute...
x Alyscamps The Alyscamps, Arles, France Les Alyscamps  
The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world. The name is a corruption of the Latin Elisii Campi (that is,...
L'Allee des Alyscamps
x Autumn leaf color The tree is on fire Les Alyscamps  
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, one or many colors that range from red to yellow. The phenomenon is commonly...
x Arles Starry Night Over the Rhone  
Arles (French pronunciation: [aʁl]; Provençal Occitan: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms) is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence. The...
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards
Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles
Van Gogh's House
Yellow House
x Rhône River View over the Rhône flowing from Valais towards Lake Geneva (picture taken from a bridge near Illarsaz, Switzerland) Starry Night Over the Rhone  
The Rhône is one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running from there through the south-eastern corner of France. Near its mouth, the river divides into two branches, known as the Grand Rhône and the Petit Rhône. Before...
x Auvers-sur-Oise Vincent Willem van Gogh 057 Wheat Field with Crows  
Auvers-sur-Oise is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.2 km (16.9 mi). (16.9 miles) from the center of Paris. It is associated with several famous artists, the most prominent being Vincent van Gogh. Throughout...
x Wheat The Wheat Field  
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (784 million tons) and rice (651...
Wheat Field with Crows
x Peasant BrueghelLand of Cockaignedetail The Potato Eaters  
A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or countryside, ultimately from the Latin pagus, or outlying administrative district ...
Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Caf au Lait
The Irish Peasant (Mary Ryan)
A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
The Peasant Wedding
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x Egon Schiele Egon-Schiele-Anton-Josef-Trcka-1914 Self Portrait with Black Vase  
Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (pronounced [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its...
x Raphael Sanzio 00 Self-portrait with a friend  
Raphael Sanzio (Italian: Raffaello), (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520) usually known by his first name alone, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and...
Self-portrait
x Marc Chagall Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten. Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers  
Marc Chagall (IPA: ʃʌ-ɡɑːl); [shuh-GAHL] (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Jewish Belarusian artist, born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) and naturalized French in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most...
x George Washington Portrait of George Washington Washington Crossing the Delaware Washington at Princeton
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797). The Continental Congress...
Lansdowne portrait
Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Princeton Battle Monument
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x Pope Paul V Pope Paul V Portrait of Pope Paul V  
Pope Paul V (Rome, September 17, 1552 – January 28, 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death. He was born into the noble Borghese family of Siena which had recently fled to Rome, and ROMANUS appears in most of his...
x House of Barberini      
The Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace, the Palazzo...
x Bindo Altoviti Altoviti Portrait of Bindo Altoviti  
Bindo Altoviti was born in Rome in 1491, but of Florentine origin. He was wealthy banker and a cultured man who loved the arts.
x Pablo Picasso Autoportrait à la palette Portrait of Picasso  
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in...
Self-Portrait
x Musician The Musicians by Caravaggio The Musicians  
A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music: Conductor · leader · Concertmaster Composer · Songwriter · Arranger · Orchestrator Bassist or Double bassist · Bassoonist ·...
Three Musicians
x Icarus Frederick Leighton's Icarus and Daedalus (1869) Landscape With The Fall of Icarus  
Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος, Latin: Íkaros, Etruscan: Vicare) is a character in Greek mythology. He is the son of Daedalus and is commonly known for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ended in a fall to his death. ==Escape from Crete== hola lola...
Icarus and Daedalus
x Hyde Park, London The Serpentine, viewed from the eastern end Figure in a landscape  
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens; although often...
x Prudence Prudence, by Luca Giordano Allegory of Prudence  
Prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in practical affairs. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four Cardinal virtues (which are with the three theological virtues part of the seven virtues). The word comes...
x War Guernica The Split of Life
War is a reciprocated, armed conflict, between two or more non-congruous entities, aimed at achieving a subjectively designed, geo-politically desired result. In his book, On War, Prussian military theoretician Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the ...
The Face of War
x Fishing Fishermen in the harbor of Kochi, India Tuna Fishing  
Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as...
x John the Apostle Hans Memling 039 The Four Apostles  
John the Apostle (Greek Ιωάννης) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles. Christian tradition identifies him as the author of several New Testament works:...
x Saint Peter Petersinai The Four Apostles  
Saint Peter (Greek: Πέτρος, Pétros “Rock”, Kephas in Hellenized Aramaic) (c.1–AD 64) was a leader of the early Christian church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. According to Biblical accounts, he...
The Repentant Peter
Crucifixion of St. Peter
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Dominic and a Donor
The Liberation of St. Peter
x Paul of Tarsus StPaul ElGreco The Four Apostles  
Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ (Saul), Σαῦλος (Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos); Latin: Paulus or Paullus; Hebrew: שאול התרסי‎ Šaʾul HaTarsi (Saul of Tarsus)) (died c 64-65), was a...
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Dominic and a Donor
St. Paul Healing the Cripple at Lystra
x Sunflower Vase with Three Sunflowers Sunflowers
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annual plants native to the Americas, that possess a large inflorescence (flowering head). Sunflower stems can grow as high as 3m (10 ft), and the flower head can reach 30 cm (11.8 in) in diameter with large edible...
Vase with Five Sunflowers
Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
Two Cut Sunflowers
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x Gabriel Goldenlocks Virgin Annunciate  
In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Modern Gavriʼel Tiberian Gaḇrîʼēl; Latin: Gabrielus; Greek: Γαβριήλ, Gabriēl; Arabic: جبريل, Jibrīl or جبرائيل Jibrail; Aramaic: Gabri-el, "strong man of God") is an angel who serves as a...
x Flagellation Whipping on a post The Flagellation of Christ  
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, "whip") the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat-o-nine-tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an...
The Flagellation
x Jesus Christ Christus Ravenna Mosaic The Flagellation of Christ  
Jesus of Nazareth (c 4 BC/BCE – c 30 AD/CE), also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity, and within most denominations he is venerated as the Son of God and as God incarnate. Christians also view him as the Messiah foretold in...
The Flagellation
Christ washing the Disciples' Feet
Head of Christ
Bust of Jesus as a Youth
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x Passion The Mocking of Christ by Titian The Flagellation  
The Passion is the Christian theological term used for the events and suffering – physical, spiritual, and mental – of Jesus in the hours before and including his trial and execution by crucifixion. The Crucifixion of Jesus is an event central to...
The Flagellation of Christ
Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist
The Yellow Christ
Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints
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x American Revolutionary War Rev collage Washington Crossing the Delaware  
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent, and ended in a global war...
Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth
Princeton Battle Monument
x Battle of Trenton Jehu Eyre advised and fought alongside George Washington, with whom he crossed the Delaware in 1776. Washington Crossing the Delaware  
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather allowed Washington...
x Battle of Monmouth BattleofMonmouth Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth  
The Battle of Monmouth (pronounced /ˈmɒnməθ/) was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in New Jersey. The main Continental Army under George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Sir Henry...
x Pietà Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned edit Pietà  
The Pietà (pl. same; Italian for pity) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of...
x Flight   Bird in Space    
x Child Jesus Bellini Jacopo Madonna The Madonna and Child  
The Child Jesus (also called Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, or Christ Child) represents the infant Jesus until to the age of twelve. At thirteen he was considered to have become adult, in accordance with both the Jewish custom of his own time, and that...
Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
Madonna Colonna
Madonna and Child with St. Anne
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x Marianne Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple Liberty Leading the People  
Marianne, a national emblem of the French Republic, is, by extension, an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents France as a state, and its values (as opposed to the "Gallic rooster" representing France as a nation and its history, land and...
Ancient Bust of Marianne
x July Revolution Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple Liberty Leading the People    
x Adoration of the shepherds Anbetung der Hirten (Adoration of the Shepherds) by Carlo Crivelli (1490) Portinari Triptych  
The Adoration of the shepherds, in the Nativity of Jesus in art, is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus, at his birthplace, typically depicted as a barn, near Bethlehem. It is based on the account in the Gospel of...
x Japanese American internment Jerome Japanese American Internment Memorial  
Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl...
x Mermaid Andrea Mermaid Fountain  
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a human head and torso and the tail of an aquatic animal such as a fish or dolphin. The word is a compound of mere, the Old English word for "sea," and maid, a woman. The male equivalent is a merman,...
A Mermaid
x San Francisco Painted Ladies Hyatt on Union Square Fountain  
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the second most densely populated major city in the U.S. and...