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Mythical and Allegorical Themes

Dramatic artworks exploring mythology and allegory, often with dynamic figures and intense emotional expressions.

Two pregnant women, Gautier Dagoty, Jean-Baptiste André (1740-1786)
Two pregnant women, Gautier Dagoty, Jean-Baptiste André (1740-1786)
292 assets in this story
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KINGS' DAY Fran�ois-Nicolas Cancellart (1825-1901). Kings' day. Paris, Victor Hugo House.
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Two pregnant women, Gautier Dagoty, Jean-Baptiste André (1740-1786)
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Saturn Devouring One Of His Children Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828 Spanish) Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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Saint Jerome. Dated: c. 1610/1614. Dimensions: overall: 168 x 110.5 cm (66 1/8 x 43 1/2 in.) framed: 194.3 x 137.2 x 6.4 cm (76 1/2 x 54 x 2 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos).
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St Jerome Louis Finson (c1580-1617 Flemish) Oil on canvas. Private collection
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Pedro Pablo Rubens (and workshop) / 'Silenus or a Faun', 1636-1637, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 181,5 cm x 68 cm, P01681. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Gautier, Jean-Baptiste, Essai d'anatomie en tableaux imprimés: Planche 20, Anatomical muscle model, print, prints, height 606 mm, width 460 mm, French, 1775 - 1825, print maker, 1745 - 1745, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, mezzotint
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Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons 1810-1820 Switzerland. Fuseliís unfinished painting depicts the ancient Greek hero Perseus, son of Zeus, a demigod who slew Medusa, the snake-haired Gorgon whose glance turned men to stone. On the ground lies the decapitated body of Medusa, above which the airborne Perseus flees with her head, which retained its deadly power. Medusaís two sisters, at right, unsuccessfully attempt to stop Perseus.The paintingís source was the ancient Greek poet Hesiodís the Shield of Heracles (translated into English in 1815), an imagined description in verse of the scenes found on Heraclesís beautifully crafted shield, including Perseus slaying Medusa.. Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper . Henry Fuseli
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St Sebastian. Dating: 1470 - 1490. Place: Mantua. Measurements: h 143.5 cm × w 59.5 cm × t 3.5 cm; d 5.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Francesco Bonsignori (attributed to).
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Classical Figures in Battle, Attributed to Mauritius Lowe, 1746-1793, British, undated, Pen and black ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (26.7 x 25.7 cm), angels, armor, battles, Classical, crowns, demons, Grand Tour, mythology, nudes, religious and mythological subject, serpents, shields, spears, warriors, wings
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Phaeton's Fall, Moreau, Gustave, 1877
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                                  The couple leave Eden, while  behind them a lion ravages a  deer - a sign that, thanks to  man's disobedience, the  Peaceable Kingdom is no more
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Saint Sebastian, 1543, by workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (16th century). National Gallery. Oslo. Norway.
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Aurelio Arteta, triptych of war. the rear, around 1937-1938, oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain.
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Dancer with tamburine / Louis Lafitte
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Fresco at the Villa dei Misteri, Pompeii, a large Roman town destroyed in 79AD by a volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius, UNESCO World Heritage Site,...
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'Saint John the Baptist', ca. 1608, Oil on panel, 99 cm x 45 cm, P01025. Author: FRANCISCO PACHECO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. SAN JUAN BAUTISTA.
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The Actor, Pablo Picasso, 1904-1905, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America
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Punishment of Loki
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St. John the Baptist; Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503 - 1572); about 1542 - 1545; Oil on panel; 154 × 53 cm (60 5,8 × 20 7,8 in.)
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The First Book of Urizen, Plate 4 (Bentley 24), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm), Plate: 6 x 4 1/8 inches (15.2 x 10.5 cm), and Spine: 10 1/4 inches (26 cm), fire, flames, kneeling, literary theme, men, mountains, nudes, religious and mythological subject, water, waves, tidal
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Purgatorio. Illustration to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989)
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Les deux frères (The two brothers), Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
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El Entierro del Conde Orgaz: Detalle del cuerpo del Conde. Museum: IGLESIA SANTO TOME TOLEDO ESPAÑA. Author: D. THEOTOCOPOULUS GRECO.
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Umbria Terni Porano Torre S. Severo8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: An example of a grand aristocratic residence of the late Renaissance aristocracy, built by Cardinal Simoncelli. The palace was never completed, and is now in a state of great disrepair. No written or visual documentation exists for this site prior to Hutzel's campaign and attributions for the frescoes have not been made. Exterior views; interior views of frescoes and stucco work on ceilings and walls Object Notes: Site not recorded in TCI German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province,
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RETABLO DEL AMOR 1910-TERCER PANEL:LEDA. Author: JULIO ROMERO DE TORRES. Location: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART CATALUNYA. Barcelona. SPAIN.
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Rape in the Stone Age'. Paul Joseph Jamin (1853-1903) French painter. Oil on canvas.
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PINTURA. Author: LUIS EDUARDO AUTE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Wright, Wilhelm von, work, Majava, illustration from Tidskrift för jägare och naturforskare magazine (no. 4/1834, p. 865), 1834, lithograph, hand-colored, graphics, sheet width 20.5 cm, sheet height 12.5 cm, Wilhelm von Wright 1810 - 1887, Swedish-Finnish painter and amateur naturalist.
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Wall Painting of the Gallery of the Town Hotel, 4th Arrondissement, Paris Wall painting of the City Hall Festival Gallery, Paris (IV�me Arr.). 1853. Photograph of Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884).
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San Sebastian, 1520-1522, detail from the Averoldi polyptych, by Titian (ca 1490-1576), oil on canvas, 170x65 cm.
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St. Andrew the Apostle  17th C. Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652/Spanish)
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Théodore Géricault / 'Study of a Man', 1808-1812, Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. Museum: Musee Des Beaux Arts, ROUEN, France.
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El Greco / 'Saint Sebastian', 1610-1614, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 115 cm x 85 cm, P03002. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. SAN SEBASTIAN.
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Acts 8:36 Harold Stevenson (1929 American) Chisholm Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
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Wood Carving; Kazumasa Ogawa (Japanese, 1860 - 1929); 1897; Hand-colored Albumen silver print
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Spring Evening by Bocklin, Arnold (1827-1901) Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest 1879 Oil on canvas 67,4x129,5 Schwitzerland Symbolism Mythology, Allegory and Literature Painting
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The Briar Rose Series, Study for 'The Garden Court', 1889 Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Sleeping, Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Watercolour, Women, Female, Weaving, Resting, Works on Paper
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'Saint Sebastian', 1457. Artist: Andrea del Castagno
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Italy, Veneto, Padua, Capella degli Scrovegni, Giotto fresco detail of Hell.
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Day (Truth) Made 1896-1898 Switzerland. Oil on canvas . Ferdinand Hodler
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National Museum of Ancient Art. The last judgment. The hell. Detail. Unknown master. 16th century. oil on oak panel.
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'The Punishment of Loke', 1912. Loki, the Norse god of fire, was tied to a rock where the venom of the serpent would fall on his face, he writhed in pain causing earthquakes. From "Teutonic Myth and Legend", by Donald A. Mackenzie. The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1912
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The Smoker, by Quast Pieter Jansz, 17th Century, tavola di quercia. Formerly Switzerland, Lugano-Castagnola, Villa Favorita. All smoker jug: pitcher chair footrest brown shades: tones: hues shadows physiognomy grotesque.
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PINTURA SUPERREALISTA. Author: JOSE HERNANDEZ MUÑOZ. Location: GALERIA BIOSCA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Woodcut titled 'Pain Man', showing a figure in distress with colored details, emphasizing expression and composition.
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Kneeling Oriental in front of a kneeling woman. Draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (I). Dating: c. 1614 - 1616. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 168 mm × w 230 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Sleeping Venus, Roman goddess of love, erotic desire and beauty, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date...
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Cabeca de Vaca in the desert. The Great Explorers.   Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.  After a work by American artist Frederic Sackrider Remington, 1861 - 1909.  This picture is number one in Remington's
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Painting from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom). Roman. Augustan era, 1st C. AD. From Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, Italy. Landscape with Polyphemus. Metropolitan Museum. NY. USA.
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A stylised (and rather bizarre) view of the Jungfrau Mountain, depicted as... a Jungfrau!     Date: 1908
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New Dreams (Plate 7) (Neue Träume) from the series Die Liebe, Opus X. Dimensions: 68.5 cm x 51.4 cm, 45.3 cm x 35.2 cm, 41.5 cm x 31.8 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: MAX KLINGER.
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Saint Sebastian by Sandro Botticelli, tempera on panel, 1474, 1445-1510, Florentine School, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 195x75
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Scenes from the Life of Christ of Massacre of the Innocents, by Giotto, 1304 - 1306, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Padua, Scrovegni Chapel. Detail. Foreground face of Herod baby: child on blue background gray white black brown tones: hues.
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'Personaje representando una fiera', 1997, Tempera on canvas, 50 x 36 cm. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Hugo, Victor (n.1802-02-26-D.1885-05-22), ECCE (title given by the author), 1854. Plume and barrel of brown ink, black ink, castle, black stone, Gouache on paper. House of Victor Hugo - Hauteville House.
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The Barber, Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640-1690, Dutch, after Petrus Staverenus, active 1634-1654, Dutch, Published by Abraham Blooteling, 1640-1690, Dutch, between 1670 and 1690, Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 7 15/16 x 5 1/2 inches (20.2 x 14 cm) and Plate: 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (19.7 x 13.7 cm), bald, barber, caricature, cloak, genre subject, hats, laughing, men, mole, peasants, portrait, satire, senses, smiling, tools, touch
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Franz von Stuck - La expulsión del Paraíso ,1890, óleo sobre tabla, Museo de Orsay, Ministerio de Cultura y Comunicación Francés, Paris, France,Western Europe.
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Middle Ages. Woman. Heretic. Germania, 1882. Juan Scherr.
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Aleix Clapés / "Hercules looking for the Hespérides" (detail), around 1890, Painting (Oil on canvas), 74.5 x 69.9 cm. Museum: Palacio Güell, Barcelona, Cataluña, España. Author: ALEIX CLAPÉS I PUIG.
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Finland, Helsinki, Kullervo's Curse
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Teiresias Foretells the Future to Odysseus by Fussli (Fuseli), Johann Heinrich (1741-1825) / Albertina, Vienna / Classicism / 1780-1783 / Schwitzerland / Pen, brush, brown colour, black chalk, water colour on paper / Mythology, Allegory and Literature /
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Adan y Eva con su primer hijo, Lesser Ury, 1896, oleo sobre lienzo, Museo Judío de Berlín,diseñado por el arquitecto polaco Daniel Libeskinds , Berlin, Alemania, Europe.
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The night, by Gaetano Previati (1852-1920), oil, 127x91 cm.
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LA PESCA DE LOS ATUNES - 1967 - O/L - 400x300 - PINTURA SURREALISTA ESPAÑOLA. Author: SALVADOR DALI. Location: FUNDACION PAUL RICARD. Bandol. France.
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Campania Napoli Naples S. Lorenzo Maggiore71. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Sculpture, architecture, architectural sculpture (including Roman spolia) 13-14th century Chapter house; sarcophagi, gravestones; wall painting. Fragment of mosaic; sculptural fragments in the Sala Capitolare. Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, ceiling painting fresco cycle; prints depicting Venice c. 1845 (4), sculpture; life-size creche figures dressed in original Neapolitan costume Church restored in 1882, 1926, 1944; excavations under the transept undertaken between 1958-1962, and in the cloister in 1976, have revealed remains of a Roman macellum (market), street, and the paleochristian basilica of the 6th c. AD. Antiquities: Pottery: black-glazed, archaic banded, domestic wares, bucchero; architectural terracottas, statuettes, lamps, sculpture fragments Object Notes: 3 color negatives with no prints at the end. General Notes: Most objects/paintings/frescoes unidentified. Three batches
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Rape; Vergewaltigung. Otto Dix (1891-1969). Watercolour and brush and black ink over pencil on paper. Painted in 1927. 56.5 x 38.3cm.
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Portrait of Quappi in White Scarf,  by Max Beckmann,  1884-1950 German,  oil on canvas,  Private Collection,  1925
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This 1880s illustration accompanied a book on Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It shows the scene in the Odyssey when Odysseus (also spelled Ulysses) prepares to fight the beggar Irus. Odysseus'fightwithIrus, who also known as Arnaios, is meant, first, to exhibitOdysseus'sfairness to an obnoxious challenger. Second, it is mean to show that the suitors have no regard for the concept of xeniahospitality to strangersno matter what their station in life may be.
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Man and Ephebe or adolescent male (500 BC)
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'Shipwrecked Men', 1930-1931, Oil on canvas, 178,5 x 157 cm, AS00604. Author: AURELIO ARTETA (1879-1940). Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE REINA SOFIA-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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fine arts, B_cklin, Arnold, (1827 - 1901), painting, ""Dapnis und Amaryllis"", (""Dapnis and Amaryllis"", 1866, oil on canvas, 137 cm x 100,4 cm, Schack gallery, Munich, Germany, Swiss, 19th century, Bocklin, Boecklin, Greek mythology, legend, young man, full length, music, panpipe, panpipes, pan pipe, instrument,
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3 DE MAYO DE 1808 - LOS FUSILAMIENTOS EN LA MONTAÑA DEL PRINCIPE PIO - DETALLE DE UNO DE LOS MUERTOS - 1814 - O/ L - NP 749 - CONJUNTO 362. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Christ placed in the tomb, from predella to the Isenheim altarpiece, c.1515 (detail)
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'Saint Sebastian' (detail), 1610-1614, Oil on canvas, P03002. Author: EL GRECO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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The Dead Christ Supported By An Angel Antonello da Messina (ca.1430-1479 Italian) Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for Dante's Inferno, the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Canto, Inferno, Hell, Paradise, Angels, Damnation, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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The Fall of the Titans. Date/Period: From 1588 until 1590. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 2,390 mm (94.09 in); Width: 3,070 mm (10.07 ft). Author: CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM.
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Domenico Veneziano, Italian (c. 1410-1461), Saint John in the Desert, c. 1445-1450, tempera on panel
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Painting depicting a naked woman standing on her balcony, signed Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1969), Russian artist
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Scene of torture in Suriname, print. Slavery, South America, 19th century.
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Cain Leadeth Abel to Death James J. Tissot 1836-1902 French Jewish Museum New York City
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The Good Samaritan - Aimé Morot, 1880
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Athletes and dead companion. Etruscan artefact. 4th cent. BC. statuette. ITALY.
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L 'Eglise St. Pierre et paul. Intérieur Vilnius. Church In. Piotr and Paw Grassland; Photography in the album "Vilnius", volume 2; Bu Hak, Jan (1876-1950); 1912 (1912-00-00-1913-00-00);
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A Fragment from The Triumph of Chastity over Love. Unknown maker, South Netherlandish
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David with the Head of Goliath, by Dolci Carlo, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Brera Art Gallery. Detail. Head of Goliath giant beard sash frills arm hand.
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Man and Horse, Joan Covas, mixed media on canvas, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
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Christ at the Column, attributed to Donato Bramante (1444-1514), tempera and oil on panel, 93x62 cm.
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Jacob wrestling with the angel. Draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (I). Dating: 1617 - 1619. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 260 mm × w 210 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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This painting by Elihu Vedder is titled Youth in Red Jacket, Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. .
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The devil, detail from the Santa Maria del Soccorso, 1475-1485, attributed to the Master of the Johnson Nativity (active 2nd half of the 15th century). Santo Spirito Church (St Mary of the Holy Spirit), Florence.
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Bosch- Garden of Earthly delights. Bird-headed monster. 16th cent. HOLLAND.
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REZANDO. Author: Otero. Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. Coruña. SPAIN.
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Mysterious Planet, Artist Unknown
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Lemninkainen's mother, 1897, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), 85x118 cm. Detail.
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Theatrical masks of tragedy and comedy depicted in a Roman mosaic. Artist: Unknown
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Cristo Morto, Lamentation of Christ, painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1431 - 1506, Renaissance, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
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MATERIA TRUNCADA - 1985 - 24X18 CM - MIXTA/CARTON. Author: MIGUEL JUAN AROCHA ISIDRO-PINTOR SIGLO XX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Monsters from the Temptation of Saint Anthony, details from the Isenheim Altarpiece, ca 1515, by Mathias Grunewald (1475-1528), oil on panel.
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