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Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited,...
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The Thinker
"The Thinker" is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, whose first cast, of 1902, is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris; there are some 20 other original castings, as well as various other versions, studies, and posthumous castings. It...
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- 1902
Guernica
Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The...
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- 1937
The Scream
The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is...
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- 1893
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- 1893
The Starry Night
The Starry Night (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitorium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night,...
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- Jun 1889
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers is an oil painting by Belarusian painter Marc Chagall, painted in 1913. It appeared in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind. This picture was painted in 1913 in France. It was painted on an oil-canvas using cubism.
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- 1913
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. It dates to c. 1518, and is housed in the Louvre Museum of Paris, France.
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- 1518
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- 1519
The Son of Man
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall,...
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- 1964
Untitled (Man and mirror)
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- 1990
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- 1990
White Flag
"White Flag" (1955) is a mixed-media painting by American artist Jasper Johns and is the largest of Johns's flag paintings.
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- 1955
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The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria; Catalan: La persistència de la memòria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works. The painting has been in the collection of the Museum...
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- 1931
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- 1931
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. A short, alternate title for the painting is Sting Caused by the Flight of a Bee. It was painted in 1944, while Dalí...
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- 1944
The Madonna of Port Lligat
The Madonna of Port Lligat is the name of three paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37.5 centimetres (19.3 x 14.8 in), and is housed in the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...
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- 1949
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is over 14 feet tall and over 9 feet wide (410 x 284 cm; 161.4 x 111.8 in), one in a series of large paintings...
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- 1958
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- 1959
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934) is a painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The title refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer's...
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- 1934
Impression, Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) is a painting by Claude Monet. It gave rise to the name of the Impressionist movement.
Dated 1872, its subject is the harbour of Le Havre in France, using very loose brush strokes that suggest rather...
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- 1872
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- 1873
The Luncheon on the Grass
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (English, "The Luncheon on the Grass") – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. The painting depicts the juxtaposition of a female nude and a...
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- 1862
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881, French: Le déjeuner des canotiers) is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It was purchased from the artist by the dealer-patron Paul Durand-Ruel and bought in 1923 (for $125,000) from his...
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- 1881
Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The...
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- 1876
Mephistopheles
This is an illustration of Delacroix for a French translation of Goethe's Faust, published in Paris in 1828.
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- 1828
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 of France. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies...
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Death of Sardanapalus
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.
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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
Sultan of Morocco
"Sultan of Morocco" (1845) is a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix.
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- 1845
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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Clorinda Rescues Olindo und Sophroni
"Clorinda Rescues Olindo und Sophroni" (1856) is a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix.
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The Descent from the Cross
The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by Peter Paul Rubens in 1612-1614. The painting is the second of Rubens's great altarpieces for the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium, along with The Elevation of the Cross...
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- 1612
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- 1614
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
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.
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- 1626
The Three Graces
Antonio Canova’s statue The Three Graces is a Neoclassical sculpture, in marble, of the mythological three charites, daughters of Zeus – identified on some engravings of the statue as, from left to right, Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia - who were...
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Massacre of the Innocents
The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew.
The first version painted by Rubens dates from...
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- 1611
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- 1612
Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). It dates from about 1609 to 1610.
The painting depicts an episode from the Old Testament story of Samson and Delilah (Judges 16). Samson, having fallen in...
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- 1609
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Oath of the Horatii
Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and trhe public, and...
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- 1784
Oath of the Tennis Court
"Oath of the Tennis Court" (1791) is a painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.
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- 1791
The Death of Socrates
"The Death of Socrates" (1787) is a painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David.
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- 1787
The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat (French: La Mort de Marat or Marat Assassiné) is a painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the Revolution. David was the leading French...
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- 1793
The Toilet of Venus
"The Toilet of Venus" is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter François Boucher (1703–1770). It once decorated the appartement des bains of Madame de Pompadour's château de Bellevue. Today it is part of the collection of The Metropolitan...
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- 1751
Oddi altar
The Oddi Altarpiece is an altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin painted in 1502-1504 by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, Italy. It is presently...
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Portrait of Eugene Boch
The portrait was executed in the first days of September 1888, a few days before Boch's departure. In the first version of Van Gogh's Bedroom, executed in October 1888, this portrait is shown hanging to the left of the portrait of Paul-Eugène...
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Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 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...
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- 1852
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas is a painting of the subject of the same name by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, c. 1601–1602. It is housed in the Sanssouci of Potsdam, Germany.
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- 1602
Battle of the Centaurs
Battle of the Centaurs is a relief by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, created around 1492. It was the last work Michelangelo created while under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, who died shortly after its completion. Inspired by a...
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- 1492
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, executed in spring 1889, one of several paintings he produced on the subject of Flowering Orchards (Van Gogh series) while living in Arles. It supplies a view across a canal and...
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The Yellow Christ
The Yellow Christ (in French: Le Christ jaune) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in autumn 1889 in Pont-Aven. Together with The Green Christ, it is considered to be one of the key-works of Symbolism in painting.
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The Annunciation
The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, finished around 1608. It housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy.
The painting has been considerably damaged and retouched, and what remains of...
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Madonna of Loreto
The Madonna of Loreto is a painting finished around 1508-1509 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.
For centuries the painting kept company with the Portrait of Pope Julius II, first...
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Saint Matthew and the Angel
Saint Matthew and the Angel (1602) is a painting from the Italian master Caravaggio (1571-1610), completed for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. It was destroyed in 1945 and is now known only from black-and-white...
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L'Absinthe
L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas. Some original title translations are A sketch of a French Café, then Figures at Café, the title was finally changed in 1893 to L'Absinthe (the name the...
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- 1876
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation of Dead Christ, or the Dead Christ) is a c. 1480 painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. While the dating of the piece is debated, is generally believed to have been...
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Madonna of the Harpies
Madonna of the Harpies (Italian: Madonna delle Arpie) is a 1517 painting by Andrea del Sarto, considered his major contribution to High Renaissance art.
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The Hay Wain
The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821. The painting depicts a rural scene on the River Stour in Suffolk. It hangs in the National Gallery London, and is regarded as one of the greatest British paintings.
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- 1821
Primavera
Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as "[o]ne of the most popular paintings in Western art"....
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- 1482
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 was first displayed at the Salon, where it was universally admired. King Louis Philippe bought...
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The Deposition from the Cross
The Deposition from the Cross is an altarpiece of the Deposition of Christ by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo, completed in 1528. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, The...
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Madonna Litta
The Madonna Litta is a late 15th-century painting of the Madonna nursing the infant Jesus which is generally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and is displayed in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg.
There are numerous replicas of the work by...
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The Church at Auvers
The Church at Auvers was painted by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890.
The Church at Auvers — along with other canvases such as The Town Hall at Auvers and several paintings of small houses with thatched roofs — are...
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- 1890
Saint Madeleine
Saint Madeleine, also known as Mary Magdalene, is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, circa 1596-1597. It is housed in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery of Rome.
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- 1597
