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| David |
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. The 5.17 meter (17 ft) marble statue portrays the Biblical King David in the nude. Unlike previous depictions of David which portray the hero after his...
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Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze | |||
| Venus de Milo |
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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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Louvre | |||
| Mona Lisa |
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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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Louvre | |||
| The Last Supper |
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The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the...
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Santa Maria delle Grazie | |||
| Pietà |
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La Pietà (1499) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by the renowned artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was...
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St. Peter's Basilica | |||
| The Birth of Venus |
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The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is currently in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence....
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Uffizi Gallery | |||
| The Scream |
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The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik; created 1893-1910) is the title of expressionist paintings and prints in a series by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, depicting an agonized figure against a blood red sky. The landscape in the background is Oslofjord,...
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Munch Museum | |||
| The Scream |
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The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik; created 1893-1910) is the title of expressionist paintings and prints in a series by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, depicting an agonized figure against a blood red sky. The landscape in the background is Oslofjord,...
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National Gallery, Oslo | |||
| Las Meninas |
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Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and...
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Museo del Prado | |||
| Great Sphinx of Giza |
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a statue of a reclining lion with a human head that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile, near modern-day Cairo, in Egypt. It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 m (241 ft) long,...
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Giza pyramid complex | |||
| 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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Louvre | |||
| Impression, Sunrise |
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Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named.
Dated 1872, but probably created in 1873, its subject is the harbour of Le Havre in France, using very loose brush strokes...
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Musée Marmottan-Monet | |||
| The Persistence of Memory |
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La persistencia de la memoria (1931) or The Persistence of Memory – also known by some as Melting Clocks – is the most famous painting by artist Salvador Dalí.
The painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York...
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Museum of Modern Art | |||
| 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...
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Louvre | |||
| The Red Vineyard |
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The Red Vineyard is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately-primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It was supposedly the only piece sold by the artist while he was alive.
The Red Vineyard...
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Pushkin Museum | |||
| The Creation of Adam |
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The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the...
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Sistine Chapel | |||
| Moses |
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The Moses is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1513–1515 which depicts the Biblical figure Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
Originally intended for St. Peter's Basilica, "Moses" and the tomb were instead placed in the minor...
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San Pietro in Vincoli | |||
| Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican...
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Sistine Chapel | |||
| Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening |
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. (The title is also known as One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a...
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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza | |||
| Ginevra de' Benci |
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Ginevra de' Benci (Born 1457) was a lady of the aristocratic class in 15th century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of one of only about 17 existing paintings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci....
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National Gallery of Art | |||
| 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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Louvre | |||
| The Hay Wain |
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The Hay Wain is an oil on canvas painting by John Constable. It was finished in 1821 and shows a hay wain near Flatford Mill on the River Stour in Suffolk, though because the Stour forms the border of two counties, it depicts Willy Lott's Cottage in...
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National Gallery, London | |||
| Arnolfini portrait |
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The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel executed in 1434 by Jan van Eyck, a master of Early Netherlandish painting. Among other titles, it is also known as "The Arnolfini Wedding", "The Arnolfini Marriage", "The Arnolfini Double...
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National Gallery, London | |||
| Guernica |
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Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government...
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | |||
| The Potato Eaters |
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The Potato Eaters (Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is a painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh that he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is housed in the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam.
During March and the beginning of April...
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Van Gogh Museum | |||
| The Starry Night |
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De sterrennacht is the dutch name of the painting The Starry Night by a post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It is one of his most well-known painting and has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since...
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New York City | |||
| The Starry Night |
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De sterrennacht is the dutch name of the painting The Starry Night by a post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It is one of his most well-known painting and has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since...
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Museum of Modern Art | |||
| Washington Crossing the Delaware |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by German American artist Emanuel Leutze. It is in commemoration of Washington's crossing of the Delaware on December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. It was the...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | |||
| Madonna and Child |
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Madonna and Child (also known as the Stoclet Madonna or Stroganoff Madonna) is a panel painting by Italian medieval artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Painted in tempera with gilding on wood panel around the year 1300, it depicts Mary, the mother of...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | |||
| American Gothic |
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American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930. Its inspiration came from a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival style with a distinctive upper window and a decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in...
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Art Institute of Chicago | |||
| 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...
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Louvre | |||
| Cafe Terrace at Night |
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Café Terrace at Night, also known as The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, is an oil painting executed by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 (Toile de 25 figure) in Arles, France, mid September 1888. The...
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Kröller-Müller Museum | |||
| Ophelia |
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Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed in 1852. Currently held in the Tate Britain in London, it depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark.
The...
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Tate Gallery, Britain | |||
| The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli |
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The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (Funerali dell’anarchico Galli) is a painting by Italian painter Carlo Carrà. It was finished in 1911, during the artist's futurist phase. It currently resides in New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
The subject...
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Museum of Modern Art | |||
| Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time |
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Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time is an allegorical painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino now in the National Gallery, London.
Around 1545, Bronzino was commissioned to create a painting which has come to be known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and...
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National Gallery, London | |||
| Wheat Field with Crows |
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Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is commonly but mistakenly believed that this was Van Gogh's last painting, a misunderstanding fed by "seeing the dramatic, cloudy sky filled with crows and the cut-off path as...
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Van Gogh Museum | |||
| The Great Masturbator |
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The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí executed during the surrealist epoch, and is currently displayed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
The center of the painting has a distorted human face in profile...
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | |||
| The Garden of Earthly Delights |
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (or The Millennium) is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating between 1503 and 1504, when Bosch was about 50...
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Museo del Prado | |||
| The Rokeby Venus |
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The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and...
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National Gallery, London | |||
| 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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Louvre | |||
| Annunciation |
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The painting "Annunciation" or "The Annunciation" by Leonardo da Vinci was painted, with Andrea del Verrocchio, circa 1472–1475. The wings were later extended by another artist.
The angel holds a Madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity and of the...
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Uffizi Gallery | |||
| Amor Vincit Omnia |
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Amor Vincit Omnia (correctly known as Amor Omnia Vincit meaning "Love Conquers All", known in English by a variety of names including Amor Victorious, Victorious Cupid, Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love) is a painting by the Baroque...
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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin | |||
| Battle of the Centaurs |
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Battle of the Centaurs is a relief done by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, around 1492. It is in the Florentine museum Casa Buonarroti.
Battle is the second known piece made by Michelangelo. It was carved in white...
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Casa Buonarroti | |||
| Luncheon of the Boating Party |
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Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881, French: Le déjeuner des canotiers) is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently housed in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
The painting depicts a group of Renoir's...
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Phillips Collection | |||
| Madonna Litta |
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The Madonna Litta is one of the great paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. There are numerous replicas of the work by other Renaissance painters, and Leonardo's own preliminary sketch of Madonna's head in the Louvre. The Child's awkward posture, however,...
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Hermitage Museum | |||
| The Harvesters |
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The Harvesters is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of which are still extant, that depict different times of the year. As in many of his paintings, the focus is on peasants and...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | |||
| 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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Louvre | |||
| Ecstasy of St Theresa |
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The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (alternatively Saint Teresa in Ecstasy or Transverberation of Saint Teresa) is the central sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel , Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. It was...
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Santa Maria della Vittoria | |||
| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. Each is depicted in...
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Museum of Modern Art | |||
| La Maja Desnuda |
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La maja desnuda (known in English as The Naked (or Nude) Maja) is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, portraying a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows. It was executed some time between 1797 and 1800, and is...
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Museo del Prado | |||
| Nighthawks |
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Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is considered Hopper's most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable in American art. It is currently in the collection...
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Art Institute of Chicago | |||
| Our Lady of Calvary |
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Our Lady of Calvary is a 17th century painting situated in the shrine of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, one of the most often visited pilgrimage sites in Poland.
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Kalwaria Zebrzydowska | |||
| The Ambassadors |
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The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of...
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National Gallery, London | |||
| Mérode |
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The Mérode Altarpiece is a three-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, although believed by some to be by a follower, probably copying an original by Campin. It is currently described by the Metropolitan as by "Robert...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | |||
| Christina's World |
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Christina's World is a work by U.S. painter Andrew Wyeth, and one of the best-known American paintings of the middle 20th century. It depicts a seemingly young woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling...
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Museum of Modern Art | |||
| Assumption of the Virgin Mary |
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The Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Assumption of the Holy Virgin, is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1626 as an altarpiece for the high altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, where it remains.
According to New Testament...
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Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp | |||
| Fountain |
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Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing object—in this case a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". The art...
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Indiana University Art Museum | |||
| Fountain |
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Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing object—in this case a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". The art...
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |||
| Fountain |
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Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing object—in this case a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". The art...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
| Fountain |
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Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing object—in this case a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". The art...
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Tate Modern, London | |||
