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Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Judith Leyster, c. 1630; in the National...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, accession no. 1949.6.1
Hall of Bulls, Lascaux cave, Dordogne, France.
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Ships in procession, fresco from the West House in AkrotĂri on Thera (modern Greek:...
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François Vase, Attic vessel made by Ergotimos, c. 570 bce;...
By permission of the Regional Museums of Tuscany, Florence. All rights reserved.
Depiction of the hero Theseus killing the Minotaur, detail of a vase painting by...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Hermes striding past the satyr Orcimachos, the Berlin amphora by the Berlin Painter,...
Courtesy of the Antikenmuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz; photograph, Ingrid Geske
Red-figure amphora showing Sappho teaching music, by the Niobid Painter, 460â450...
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (accession no. 48.2712)
Frescoed wall of fruit trees, palms, and oleanders from the garden room, Villa of...
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Our Lady of Vladimir, tempera on wood, c. 1130; in the State Tretyakov Gallery,...
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Illuminated depiction of the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek, chi and...
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Lamentation, fresco by Giotto, 1303â05; in the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
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The Virgin Enthroned with the Child, Surrounded by the Patrons of Siena, Angels,...
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The Annunciation, tempera on wood by Simone Martini, 1333 (saints on either...
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Effects of Good Government in the City, mural by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, c....
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Calendar illustration for February from Les TrĂšs Riches Heures du duc de Berry,...
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Calendar illustration for April from Les TrĂšs Riches Heures du duc de Berry,...
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Adoration of the Magi, tempera on wood by Gentile da Fabriano, 1423; in...
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Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?), oil on oak by Jan van Eyck, 1433; in...
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil-on-wood triptych by Hiëronymus Bosch,...
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Isenheim Altarpiece, closed view showing the (center panel) Crucifixion,...
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Detail from Expulsion from Paradise, fresco by Masaccio, c. 1423â27; in...
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Tribute Money, fresco by Masaccio, 1425; in the Brancacci Chapel, Santa...
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Madonna and Child, tempera on poplar panel by Fra Filippo Lippi, c. 1440;...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Samuel H. Kress Collection, accession no. 1939.1.290
The Annunciation, fresco by Fra Angelico, 1438â45; in the Museum of San...
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The Battle of San Romano, tempera and silver leaf on wood panel by Paolo...
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The Last Supper, fresco by Andrea del Castagno, 1447; in the Cenacolo di...
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with St. Francis, John the Baptist, St. Zenobius,...
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The Flagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca,...
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Battle of the Naked Men (also called Battle of the Nudes), engraving...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917 (17.50.99), www. metmuseum.org
Spring, tempera on wood by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1480; in the Uffizi Gallery,...
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Mystic Nativity, oil on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, 1500; in the National...
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Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed...
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The Virgin of the Rocks (also called The Virgin, the Child Jesus, Saint...
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Last Supper, wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495â98, after its restoration...
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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503â19; in the Louvre,...
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The Virgin, Child, and St. Anne oil on wood by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503â19;...
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The Grand Duke's Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti Palace,...
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Detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508â11; in the Stanza...
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Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling fresco by Michelangelo, 1508â12;...
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Michelangelo: The Last Judgment, fresco by Michelangelo, 1536â41; in the...
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Jupiter and Io, oil on canvas by Correggio, c. 1530; in the Kunsthistorisches...
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Assumption of the Virgin, by Titian, 1516â18; in Santa Maria dei Frari,...
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The Andrians, oil on canvas by Titian, c. 1523â26; in the Prado, Madrid.
Courtesy of Archivo Mas, Barcelona
The Rape of Europa, oil on canvas by Titian, c. 1559â62; in the Isabella...
Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Last Supper, oil on canvas by Tintoretto, 1592â94; in the chancel, San Giorgio...
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Deposition from the Cross, painting by Rosso Fiorentino, 1521; in the Pinacoteca...
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Madonna with the Long Neck, oil on wood by Parmigianino, c. 1534â40; in...
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A Young Woman and Her Little Boy, oil on panel by Il Bronzino, c. 1540;...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Widener Collection; accession no. 1942.9.6
The Assumption of the Virgin, oil on canvas by El Greco, 1577; in the Art...
The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Nancy Atwood Sprague in memory of Albert Arnold Sprague, reference no. 1906.99 (CC0)
Four Apostles, oil on two wood panels by Albrecht DĂŒrer, 1526; in the Alte...
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The Rhinoceros woodcut print by Albrecht DĂŒrer, 1515; in the Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919 (accession no. 19.73.159); www.metmuseum.org
Anne of Cleves, oil painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539; in the Louvre,...
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Peasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the...
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Deposition of Christ, oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1603â04; in the Pinacoteca,...
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Venus and Anchises, detail from the frescoes in the Galleria of the Palazzo Farnese,...
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Venus and Adonis, oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, mid- or late 1630s;...
Photograph by Katie Chao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of Harry Payne Bingham, 1937 (37.162)
Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, oil on canvas by Nicolas Poussin, 1640;...
The Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection, reference no. 1930.500 (CC0)
Pastoral Landscape with a Mill, oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain, 1634; in...
Photograph by Beesnest McClain. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, M.86.259
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, oil on canvas...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934 (accession no. 34.73); www.metmuseum.org
The Triumph of the Name of Jesus, ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Gaulli...
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The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice, oil on canvas by Canaletto;...
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The Holy House of Nazareth, oil painting by Francisco de ZurbarĂĄn, c. 1630;...
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.117 (CC0 1.0)
Las meninas (with a self-portrait of the artist at the left, reflections...
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Two Women at a Window, oil on canvas by BartolomĂ© Esteban Murillo, c. 1655â60;...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener Collection, 1942.9.46
Charles I with M. de St. Antoine, oil on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, 1633.
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Interior of an Office, painting by Frans Snyders, c. 1635; in the Musée...
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The Laughing Cavalier, oil painting by Frans Hals, 1624; in the Wallace...
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The Company of Frans Banninck Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, better known...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; on loan from the City of Amsterdam (object no. SK-C-5)
View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, oil on canvas by Jacob van Ruisdael,...
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Breakfast Table with Bramble Pie, oil on wood by Willem Claesz Heda, 1631;...
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
St. Joseph the Carpenter, oil on canvas by Georges de La Tour, c. 1645;...
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Saying Grace, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1740; in the...
TelarciâGiraudon/Art Resource, New York
The TĂȘte Ă TĂȘte, oil painting, part of the Marriage A-la-Mode series...
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Joshua Reynolds, detail of self-portrait, oil on panel, 1780; in the Royal Academy...
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Mrs. Sheridan, oil on canvas by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1785; in the National...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.92
Hagar and Ishmael, oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1776; in the Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1923 (accession no. 95.22.8); www.metmuseum.org
A Young Lady with a Parrot, pastel on paper by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1730;...
The Art Institute of Chicago, reference no. 1985.40 (CC0)
Oath of the Horatii, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1784; in the...
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The Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793; in the Royal...
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Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by EugĂšne Delacroix, 1830; in...
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Milton Dictating to His Daughter, oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, 1793; in...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Preston O. Morton Memorial Purchase Fund for Older Paintings; reference no. 1973.303 (CC0)
Pity, color print finished in pen and watercolor by William Blake, 1795;...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Robert W. Goelet, 1958, transferred from European Paintings (58.603), www.metmuseum.org.
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838, oil...
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The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by ThĂ©odore GĂ©ricault, 1818â19; in...
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Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, oil on canvas by Antoine-Jean...
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The Death of Sardanapalus, oil on canvas by EugĂšne Delacroix, 1826â27; in...
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La Grande Odalisque, oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814;...
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Souvenir de Mortefontaine, oil on canvas by Camille Corot, 1864; in the...
LaurosâGiraudon/Art Resource, New York
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, oil on canvas by George Caleb Bingham,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933, (33.61), www.metmuseum.org
The Boyarynya Morozova, oil painting by Vasily Surikov, one of the Peredvizhniki,...
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Olympia, oil on canvas by Ădouard Manet, 1863; in the MusĂ©e d'Orsay, Paris.
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Orpheus, oil on wood by Gustave Moreau, 1865; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris....
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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (also called Portrait of the Artist's...
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
Snap the Whip, oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, 1872; in the Metropolitan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1950, 50.41, www.metmuseum.org
The Cradle, oil painting by Berthe Morisot, 1872; in the Musée d'Orsay,...
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Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir,...
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Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry, oil on canvas by Paul...
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
Water Lilies, oil on canvas by Claude Monet, 1906; in the Art Institute...
Claude Monet. Water Lilies, 1906 (1933.1157). The Art Institute of Chicago
Winter in Union Square, oil on canvas by Childe Hassam, c. 1889; in the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Ethelyn McKinney,43.116.2, www.metmuseum.org
The Muses, oil painting by Maurice Denis, 1893; in the National Museum of...
Courtesy of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris; permission S.P.A.D.E.M. 1971, by French Reproduction Rights, Inc.; photograph, Marc Garanger
Butterflies, oil on canvas by Odilon Redon, c. 1910; in the Museum of Modern...
Photograph by Trish Mayo. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, gift of Mrs. Werner E. Josten in memory of her husband
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Ămile Bernard, 1897; in the collection of...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, oil, silver, and gold on canvas by Gustav Klimt, 1907;...
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A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in...
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At the Moulin Rouge, oil on canvas by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892â95;...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, reference no. 1928.610 (CC0)
The Scream, tempera and casein on cardboard by Edvard Munch, 1893; in the...
BĂžrre HĂžstland/The Fine Art Collections, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design; Gift of Olaf Schou 1910, NG.M.00939 (CC BY 4.0)
The Terrace Bridge, Central Park, watercolor and graphite on wove paper...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection; reference no. 1939.431 (CC0)
The Dream, oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau, 1910; in the Museum of Modern...
Photograph by Trish Mayo. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller
Dance Around the Golden Calf, oil painting by Emil Nolde, 1910; in the Bayerische...
Courtesy of the Nolde-Foundation; photograph, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913;...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection; reference no. 1931.511 (CC0)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, 1907; in the...
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The Sunblind, gouache, paper, chalk, and charcoal on canvas by Juan Gris,...
Courtesy of the Tate, London, Rights Reserved A.D.A.G.P. Paris, 1972; photograph, G. Roberton/A.C. Cooper Ltd.
The Knife Grinder, or Principle of Glittering, oil on canvas by...
Yale University Art Gallery; gift of collection Société Anonyme (1941.553)
Carousel with Pigs, oil on canvas by Robert Delaunay, 1922; in the National...
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The Soothsayer's Recompense, oil on canvas by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913;...
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection
The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas by Salvador DalĂ, 1931; in the...
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Guernica, oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, 1937; in the Museo Nacional Centro...
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Composition in White, Black, and Red, oil on canvas by Piet Mondrian, 1936;...
© Peter Horree/Alamy
Orange and Yellow, oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, 1956; in the Buffalo AKG...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, gift of Seymour H. Knox
Monsieur Plume with Creases in His Trousers (Portrait of Henri Michaux),...
Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, NY
Fountain, ready-made by Marcel Duchamp, replica of the 1917 original (now...
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Monogram, combine painting (mixed media) by Robert Rauschenberg, 1959; in...
Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Photograph: Statens Konstmuseer
A patron viewing Flag, encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on...
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Portrait-Relief of Claude Pascal, Arman, and Martial Raysse, pure pigment,...
Michael Verzani
Campbell's Soup Cans, polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol, 1962; a selection...
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Whaam!, acrylic and oil on two canvas panels by Roy Lichtenstein, 1963;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate, London
The Dinner Party, mixed media by Judy Chicago, 1974â79; in the Brooklyn...
© Donald Woodman
Frau Niepenberg (Mrs Niepenberg), oil on canvas by Gerhard Richter, 1965;...
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(Left) La GrenouillĂšre, oil on canvas by Claude Monet, 1869; in the Metropolitan...
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