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Johannes Moreelse - Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher [c.1630]
The Utrecht painter Johannes Moreelse worked for a few years in Rome, where he was influenced by the paintings of Caravaggio. He painted scenes in the style of Caravaggio, with unidealised half-length...
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Johannes Vermeer - View of Delft [c.1660-61]
This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch Golden Age. The interplay of light and shade, the impressive cloudy sky and the subtle reflections in the water make this painting an absolute...
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Consignment of the Regency [c.1622-25]
In The Consignment of the Regency, Henry IV entrusts Marie with both the regency of France and the care of the dauphin shortly before his war campaigns and eventual death. Set within a grand...
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Camille Pissarro - The Conversation [c.1881]
[National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo - Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 54 cm]
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Antoine Watteau - The French Comedy [c.1714]
Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes, October 10, 1684 - Nogent-sur-Marne, July 18, 1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the...
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Antoine Watteau - The Italian Comedy [c.1717]
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on board, 37 x 48 cm]
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Cecco del Caravaggio - Christ Driving the Moneylenders out of the Temple [1610]
[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]
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Caravaggio - Love Conquers All [1601-02]
This painting shows Amor, the Roman Cupid, wearing dark eagle wings, half-sitting on or perhaps climbing down from what appears to be a table. Scattered around are the emblems of all human endeavours –...
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida - Corner of the Garden, Alcazar, Sevilla [1910]
In this view of the garden at Seville's Alcázar Palace, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863 - Madrid, 1923) concentrated on the geometry of form and the clear, bright sunlight of southern Spain...
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John Constable - A Cottage in a Cornfield [c.1817-33]
Though left unfinished until March 1833, Constable based the donkey in this painting on a life study done in December 1815. The corn in the field remains green on the side shaded from the sun, but is...
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Cornelis van Poelenburch - Council of the Gods [c.1630]
Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594 - August 12, 1667) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Though his birthplace is unknown, a signed document survives in Utrecht where he is listed as six years old...
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John Atkinson Grimshaw - The Cradle Song [1878]
The model for The Cradle Song was Miss Agnes Leefe, a former actress from the Leeds Grand Theatre who joined the Grimshaw household around 1879 when she became governess to the children. She soon...
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Vincent van Gogh - Cypresses [1889]
Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his year long voluntary stay as a patient in the asylum in Saint-Rémy. The subject, which he found "as beautiful of line and...
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John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence [1819]
[United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington - Oil on canvas, 365.76 x 548.64 cm]
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- A Drawbridge in a Dutch Town [c.1875[
The town has not been identified but it is not necessarily meant to be a particular place, as Maris did not greatly value topographical accuracy. The lines of the bridge appear to have been painted wet...
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Gustave Moreau - Diomedes Devoured by Horses [1866]
As the shadowy figure of Hercules observes from between two columns in the background, four wild horses rip apart the slender body of King Diomedes. The brown mare fastens her teeth on his arm, while...
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John Singer Sargent - Elsie Wagg [c.1893]
[Sold for $413,000 at Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 70.5 cm]
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Albrecht Dürer - Die Ehrenpforte Kaiser Maximilians I [1559]
Intended as a non-sedentary, universal epitaph, this, the largest woodcut of its time is 3.5 metres high and intended not as a book but as a wall decoration. The 195 printing plates were printed on 36...
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