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A Masterpiece of High Renaissance Art

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The Punishment of Marsyas is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Titian, executed around 1570-1576. It is currently housed in National Museum in Kroměříž, in the Czech Republic. The painting is part of a series of canvasses with mythological themes which Titian executed in his late yea...

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The Death of Actaeon was a late work by Titian, painted in 1559 to 1575 as an oil on canvas. It is probably one of the two paintings the artist states he has started and hopes to finish (one of which he calls 'Actaeon mauled by hounds') in a letter to their commissioner Philip II of Spain during Jun...

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The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one o...

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In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great success at the Salon of 1857 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The present canvas is distinguished by the inclusion of a liveried servant and an assortment of dead game: a wild boar, a part...

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Edward Hopper's Nighthawks is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art, and it has been described as his best-known work. The painting portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates...

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The Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. It was commissioned by the confraternity of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It was brought to France after the Napoleonic conquest of the city in 1797.

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Adoration of the Magi is an early painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the painting unfinished. The Virgin Mary and Child are depicted in the foreground and fo...

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These three charming scenes belong to an altarpiece painted about 1370, probably for a church in the artist’s native Fabriano, in the region of the Marches. They illustrate the life of Saint John the Evangelist and follow the thirteenth-century Golden Legend. Saint John raises a young man, Satheus, ...

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Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (also Emperor Charles V on Horseback and Charles V at Mühlberg) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Created between April and September 1548 while Titian was at the imperial court of Augsburg, it is a tribute to Charles V, Holy Roma...

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Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, also known as Sicilia's Spasimo, is a painting of the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, circa 1516-1517. It is housed in the Museo del Prado of Madrid. As an altarpiece it is not the usual image of the Virgin and Christ child, but an episode from a narrat...

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This picture and its companion panel (also in this gallery) illustrate episodes from the life of Saint John the Baptist, who preached about the coming of Jesus. Architecture and landscape are used to frame and divide the individual scenes, enabling the viewer to follow the story. The central scene h...

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Diana and Callisto is a painting of 1556–59 by the Venetian artist Titian. It is currently part of the Bridgewater or Sutherland Loan, on display at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, with a later version by Titian and his workshop in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It portrays t...

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Sir Humphrey Morice (1723–1785), son of a wealthy merchant and director of the Bank of England, commissioned this image of the goddess of hunting. It hung as a pendant, or companion piece, to Batoni’s portrait of Morice re-clining in the Roman countryside next to his dogs, rifle, and dead game. Toge...

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Almost every day, Young would search the streets of Overtown for materials to incorporate into his artwork. Young/

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The little ceremonial buckler is of the type used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the concave side we see an elegant scene in grisaille with gold highlights, depicting a mythological episode with Diana, Endymion, Cupid and nymphs. On the convex, and thus on the visible side of the shi...

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