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Giorgione - Giorgio Barbarelli - The Sunset (Il Tramonto)The Sunset (Il Tramonto)Giorgione - Giorgio Barbarelli

Very little is known about Giorgione: only a handful of contemporary documents refer to him, and only some six or seven surviving paintings are now considered 'almost certainly' by him. Yet he is universally accepted as one of the most influential of Western artists. Probably trained by Giovanni Bel...

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Thomas Cole - The Architect-s DreamThe Architect's DreamThomas Cole

The Architect's Dream (1840) is oil on canvas painting by the founder of the Hudson River School and American artist Thomas Cole. Cole called Turner the prince of evil spirits, and he sought a form of expression for his megalomanic visions that at first sight looks more peaceful. In this painting th...

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Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire, DesolationThe Course of Empire, DesolationThomas Cole

The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevi...

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Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire, The Savage StateThe Course of Empire, The Savage StateThomas Cole

The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevi...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Rinaldo and ArmidaRinaldo and ArmidaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated), the great heroic epos by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), published in 1581, not only inspired Tiepolo to create his series of paintings in the Tasso Hall of the Villa Valmerana near Vicenza, but also to create individual portrayals such as this one. The episod...

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Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire, The Arcadian or Pastoral StateThe Course of Empire, The Arcadian or Pastoral StateThomas Cole

The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevi...

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin) - The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the SlaveThe Miracle of St Mark Freeing the SlaveTintoretto (Jacopo Comin)

The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave is a painting by Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin). Currently housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, northern Italy. It portrays an episode of the life of St. Mark, patron saint of Venice, taken from Jacopo da Varazze's Golden Legend. The scene shows, in th...

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Francis Bacon - three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion (b)three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion (b)Francis Bacon

Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by Francis Bacon. The work is based on the Eumenides-or Furies-of Aeschylus' The Oresteia, and depicts three writhing anthropomorphic creatures set against a flat burnt orange background. Three Studies was executed in ...

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Peter Paul Rubens - The Queen Opts for SecurityThe Queen Opts for SecurityPeter Paul Rubens

One of the Marie de' Medici cycle's painting; Rubens's The Queen Opts for Security represents Marie de' Medici's need for security through a depiction of the event when Marie de' Medici was forced to sign a truce in Angers after her forces had been defeated at Ponte-de-Ce. Though the painting shows ...

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Jacques-Louis David - The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his SonsThe Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his SonsJacques-Louis David

This painting was exhibited at the salon of 1789, its full title was J Brutus, First Consul, returned to his house after having condemned his two sons who had allied themselves with the Tarquins and conspired against Roman liberty the lictors return their bodies so that they may be given burial. In ...