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Domenico Campagnola
Female figure (Saint Catherine?) kneeling on the ground at center pleading to a male figure (Maximus?) who wears a crown and is seated on a throne at right; at left a figure with raised sword about to strike the woman; a group of figures looking on in the background
1517
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)
Roman Landscape with a Shepherd and Sheep
late 1640s
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)
Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
1862
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)
St. Jerome seated on the ground and reading an inscribed scroll, a skull next to his right leg and a lion beyond
ca. 1624
Auguste Renoir
By the Seashore
1883
Giovanni Baronzio
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist
ca. 1330–35
Horace Vernet
The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses
1820
Unknown maker
Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series
1550–75
Giambattista Cimaroli
View of the Brenta, near Dolo
late 18th century
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
ca. 1455–60
Georges Seurat
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
1884
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Sunrise (recto); Landscape with Figures (verso)
17th century
Charles-François Daubigny
Landscape with Ducks
1872
Martin Johnson Heade
Approaching Thunder Storm
1859
Martinus Martini
St. William of Aquitaine in armor bearing a standard in his right hand and resting his left hand on a shield, a landscape beyond
ca. 1581–1610
Conrad Faber von Creuznach
Portrait of a Man with a Moor's Head on His Signet Ring
Date not stated
Unknown maker
Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives
mid-16th century
Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
1887
Katsushika Hokusai
Moonlight on the Yodo River (Yodogawa), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)
