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    Tobias and the Angel is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, created c. 1527. It is held in the Galleria Borghese, in Rome, since 1910...
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    Tobias and the Angel is the traditional title of depictions in art of a scene from the Book of Tobit in which Tobias, son of Tobit, travels with the Archangel...
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  • Thumbnail for Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
    40 paintings and ten drawings. Savoldo was noted during his lifetime for his mastery of nocturnal effects. His Saint Matthew and the Angel (1534; Metropolitan...
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    paintings show the Virgin Mary and child Jesus with the infant John the Baptist and an angel Uriel, in a rocky setting which gives the paintings their...
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    Galleria Sabauda (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Tobias and the Angel, c. 1460 Hans Memling, Passion of Christ, c. 1471, 57 × 92 cm Filippino Lippi, Tobias and the Archangels, c. 1485...
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    Borghese Collection (category Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre)
    and Cupid by Cranach Circe by Dosso Dossi The Deposition by Rubens Tobias and the Angel by Savoldo Madonna and Child with Saints by Lorenzo Lotto The...
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    Madonna dell'Orto (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Antonio Molinari. Pieta, copy of work by Savoldo St Mauro Chapel Statue of Madonna dell'Orto Madonna with Child and St Mauro abbott, Antonio Molinari Pietro...
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    Mona Lisa (redirect from The Mona Lisa)
    masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most...
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    The Turkish Bath (Le Bain turc) is an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, initially completed between 1852 and 1859, but modified in 1862....
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    Pedretti, Carlo (2009). Leonardo da Vinci : l'Angelo incarnato & Salai = the Angel in the flesh & Salai. Margherita Melani, Daniel Arasse, da Vinci Leonardo...
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    directly borrowing the figure of the man cradling his son for the composition of Angels at the Tomb of Christ. The influence of The Raft of the Medusa was felt...
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    1808, the work was exhibited at the Salon annual painting display in 1808, and it was presented to the Salon decennial prize competition in 1810. The painting...
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    Diodorus Siculus, the ancient Greek historian, and is a work of the era of Romanticism. This painting uses rich, vivid and warm colours, and broad brushstrokes...
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    ready to attack. The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of his attempt to condense both movement and structure in his...
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    people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding aloft the flag of the French Revolution – the tricolour, which again became France's...
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    Venus de Milo (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC. It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and...
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    and Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera. Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. The...
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    in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical...
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    his composition in a sketch. The subsequent care he took in developing his idea is evident in more than 100 drawings and numerous painted sketches for...
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    the Tower of London. He was very interested about the story of the Princes in the Tower, and decided to create an historical painting inspired by the...
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    head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow. The total height of the monument is 5.57 meters (18 ft, 3 in) including the socle;...
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  • Thumbnail for The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo)
    The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. It depicts Saint...
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    conceived the idea of telling the story, to honour his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict and the protection of children. The painting...
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    is held at the Louvre, in Paris. The first version of the painting is from 1853 and is held at the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The Young Martyr...
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    Dendera zodiac (category French campaign in Egypt and Syria)
    to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic...
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  • Thumbnail for Project for the Transformation of the Grande Galerie du Louvre
    studying the layout of the future Grand Gallery, between 1784 and 1792, then between 1795 and 1802. For the Salon of 1796, he imagined a view of the Gallery...
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  • Thumbnail for The Money Changer and His Wife
    The Money Changer and His Wife is a 1514 oil-on-panel painting by the Flemish Renaissance artist Quentin Matsys, currently in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. A...
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  • Thumbnail for The Wedding at Cana
    : 469  The visual tension among the elements of the picture and the thematic instability among the human figures in The Wedding Feast at Cana derive from...
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    of the 18th century, reflects the state of mind adopted by the painters of the era, notably that of François Boucher, one of Fragonard's teachers and a...
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    Sidon Mithraeum (category Buildings and structures in Sidon)
    56417; 35.37222 The Sidon Mithraeum was a Mithraeum in Sidon, Lebanon, discovered in the late 19th century by Edmond Durighello and now lost. It is thought...
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