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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape.

Giotto: Lamentation

The Gates of Paradise, gilded bronze doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti, feature detailed relief panels and are set in a marble frame on the east side of the Florence Baptistery.

Marble statue of Saint George by Donatello, standing in a niche holding a shield, at Orsanmichele Church in Florence, Italy.

Cosimo de' Medici

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Raphael: Saint Michel

Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks

Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam

Raphael: School of Athens

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Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.

François Clouet

French painter

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Charles Bordes

French composer

Master of Flémalle: Virgin and Child

Master of Flémalle

Flemish painter

Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

Swiss historian

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Italian artist and author

Pater, Walter

Walter Pater

English author

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Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark

British art historian

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Palomino De Castro Y Velasco

Spanish painter

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Lodovico Zacconi

Italian musicologist

Berenson, photograph by David Seymour

Bernard Berenson

American art critic

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Carel van Mander

Dutch painter and writer