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Painting

589 entries

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Subject Matter

Art Form

Movement

Medium

Year Created

Group

Place

"Sappho" fresco (Pompeii)

27 Club graffiti in Tel Aviv

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

A Burial at Ornans

A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford

A Harlot's Progress

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day

A Lady and Gentleman in Black

A Lady Writing a Letter

A Man with a Quilted Sleeve

A Modern Olympia

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother

Abaporu

Achelous and Hercules

Achilles and Briseis

Admonitions Scroll

Adoration of the Christ Child (Bosch)

Adoration of the Magi (Gentile da Fabriano)

Adoration of the Name of God

Afrasiab murals

Ajanta Cave Paintings

Akrotiri Boxer Fresco

Alba Madonna

Aldobrandini Wedding

Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power

Almond Blossoms

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament

América Tropical: Oprimida y Destrozada por los Imperialismos

American Gothic

Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

An Old Man and his Grandson

Angelus Novus

Annunciation (Caravaggio)

Annunciation (Fra Angelico, San Marco)

Annunciation (Leonardo)

Annunciation with Two Kneeling Donors

Apollo and Daphne (Pollaiuolo)

Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan

Apparatus and Hand

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

April Love (painting)

Apse of Sant Climent, Taüll

Arnolfini Portrait

Arrival of the Hungarians

Art Buff

Assumption of the Virgin (Correggio)

Assumption of the Virgin (Titian)

At the Moulin Rouge

Atlanta Cyclorama

Aurora (Reni)

Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)

Azuchi Screens

Bakemono no e

Bal du Moulin de la Galette

Basket of Bread

Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio)

Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt)

Battle of Cascina (Michelangelo)

Bear Surprise

Beethoven Frieze

Benois Madonna

Black Madonna of Częstochowa

Black Square

Blowing from Guns in British India

Blue Dancers

Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

Blue Poles

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps

Braque Triptych

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Bull-Leaping Fresco

Cable Street Mural

Café Terrace at Night

Calumny of Apelles

Cambrai Madonna

Campbell's Soup Cans

Cardinal and Theological Virtues (Raphael)

Castelfranco Madonna

Chartist Mural

Chez Tortoni

Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga

Christ at the Column (Caravaggio)

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer)

Christ of Saint John of the Cross

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Caravaggio)

Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)

Christina's World

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses

Composition VII

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Conestabile Madonna

Coronation of the Virgin (Fra Angelico, Louvre)

Crack Is Wack

Cross in the Mountains

Cyclorama of Jerusalem

Danaë (Klimt)

Dance in the Country

Death Playing Chess

Dedham Lock and Mill

Delivery of the Keys

Descent from Mount Sinai (Sistine Chapel)

Descent from the Cross (Rubens)

Descent into Limbo (Mantegna)

Detroit Industry Murals

Diana and Her Companions

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament

Don Juan and the Commendatore

Doni Tondo

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening

Dresden Triptych

Drunkenness of Noah

Duria Antiquior

Dusk (Bouguereau)

Earth's Creation

Ecce Homo (García Martínez and Giménez)

Echo of a Scream

El Juicio de Paris (Simonet)

Equestrian Portrait of Elisabeth of France

Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles

Et in Arcadia ego (Guercino)

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Ezekiel's Vision (Raphael)

Fayum Mummy Portraits

Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God

Fight with Cudgels

Fish Magic

Fractio Panis

Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci

Freedom for Humanity

Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood

Fürstenzug

Galatea (Raphael)

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle

Genji Monogatari Emaki

Gettysburg Cyclorama

Ghent Altarpiece

Girl Before a Mirror

Girl Interrupted at Her Music

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pierced Eardrum

Girl with a Red Hat

Girl with Balloon

Grafton portrait

Great Daruma

Great Piece of Turf

Great Wall of Los Angeles

Guernica

Haboku sansui

Head of Christ (Rembrandt)

Heller Altarpiece

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - An 80th Birthday Portrait

Holy Trinity (Masaccio)

Houses at L'Estaque

Hyakkai Zukan

Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena

If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get

Immaculate Conception (Zurbarán)

Impression, Sunrise

In the Conservatory

Indalo

Inexhaustible Chalice

Interchange (de Kooning)

Investiture of Zimri-Lim

Ippen Shōnin Eden

Irises (painting)

Isenheim Altarpiece

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan

Jacob's Ladder (Moskos)

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1

Joseph the Carpenter

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Jupiter and Antiope (Watteau)

Jupiter and Thetis

Keith Haring Mural

Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings

Kullervo Sets Off for War

La Circassienne au Bain

La Dormeuse de Naples (painting)

La Grenouillère (Monet)

La Joconde nue

La Parisienne (fresco)

La Scapigliata

La velata

La Vie (painting)

Ladder of Divine Ascent (icon)

Lady at the Tea Table

Lady Standing at a Virginal

Lady with an Ermine

Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)

Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Botticelli, Milan)

L'Amour et Psyché, enfants

Landscape with Obelisk

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Bruegel)

Las Meninas

Last Supper (Castagno)

Last Supper (Rosselli)

Le Berceau

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

Le pigeon aux petits pois

Le Rêve (Picasso)

Le Sommeil

Leda and the Swan (Leonardo)

Leda and the Swan (Michelangelo)

L'Enseigne de Gersaint

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Les raboteurs de parquet

Liberation of Saint Peter (Raphael)

Liberty Leading the People

Lord of Miracles

L'Origine du monde

Lost portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

Lovejoy Columns

Lucca Madonna

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière

Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo)

Madonna del Cardellino

Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

Madonna with the Blue Diadem

Maestà (Simone Martini)

Magistrate of Brussels

Man at the Crossroads

Man with a Pipe

Man, Controller of the Universe

Manoppello Image

Mars Resting

Mary, Untier of Knots

Massacre of the Innocents (Bruegel)

Medusa (Leonardo)

Mérode Altarpiece

Metropolis (Dix)

Midvinterblot

Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars

Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba

Mona Lisa

Morning on the Riesengebirge

Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law

Moses Leaving for Egypt

Mountain Landscape with Rainbow

Mountains at Collioure

Mural (1943)

Mural of Dolly Parton and RuPaul

Murals from the Christian temple at Qocho

Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki

Music (Matisse)

Music in the Tuileries

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

Mystical Nativity (Filippo Lippi)

Nana (Manet)

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Narcissus (Caravaggio)

Nativity (Correggio)

Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence

Netherlandish Proverbs

Nighthawks (Hopper)

No. 5, 1948

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Oath of the Horatii

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Officer and Laughing Girl

Olympia (Manet)

On White II

One Nation Under CCTV

Open Window, Collioure

Opening of the Fifth Seal

Our Lady Derzhavnaya

Our Lady of Ferguson

Our Lady of Kazan

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Our Lady of Šiluva

Our Lady of the Don

Painting of the Six Kings

Pan American Unity

Panagia Portaitissa

Panorama Mesdag

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini

Parable of the Sower (Bruegel)

Paradise of Bhaisajyaguru

Pathfinder Mural

Peace Concluded

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Plum Brandy

Pollice Verso (Gérôme)

Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather

Pornocrates

Portrait of a Courtesan (Caravaggio)

Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban

Portrait of a Young Man (Botticelli, London)

Portrait of a Young Man (Raphael)

Portrait of a Young Man with a Book

Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta)

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Portrait of Alfonso I d'Este

Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune

Portrait of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier

Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Portrait of Empress Eugénie

Portrait of Francesco delle Opere

Portrait of Francisco Lezcano

Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud

Portrait of Henry VIII

Portrait of Innocent X

Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (van Eyck)

Portrait of Juan de Pareja

Portrait of Luca Pacioli

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi

Portrait of Madame X

Portrait of Napoleon III (Winterhalter)

Portrait of Philip the Good (van der Weyden)

Portrait of Pope Leo X

Portrait of Sebastián de Morra

Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé

Portrait of Terentius Neo

Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63

Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887)

Portrait of Wally

Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland)

Primavera (Botticelli)

Prometheus (Orozco Mural)

Prophet Daniel (Michelangelo)

Prophet Isaiah (Michelangelo)

Prophet Jeremiah (Michelangelo)

Prophet Joel (Michelangelo)

Prussian Homage (painting)

Punishment of the Sons of Korah

Rain, Steam and Speed

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (Monet)

Rejtan (painting)

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier

Rokeby Venus

Royal Courts of Justice (Banksy mural)

Saint Barbara (van Eyck)

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto)

Saint George and the Dragon (Raphael)

Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta)

Salem (painting)

San Giobbe Altarpiece

San Marco Altarpiece

Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece

Santa Trinita Maestà

Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse

Scenes from the Massacre at Chios

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle

Self-Portrait with Palette (Manet)

Self-Portrait with Two Circles

Separation of Light from Darkness

Sibyls (Raphael)

Siege of Sevastopol (panorama)

Sir Thomas More and Family

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Sistine Madonna

Skid Row City Limits Mural

Slave Labour (mural)

Slave Market in Ancient Rome

Sleeping Venus (Giorgione)

Smiling Girl

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)

Sommarnöje

Spirit of the Dead Watching

Spring (Alma-Tadema painting)

Starry Night Over the Rhône

Stay Up Late

Stufetta del cardinal Bibbiena

Stuppach Madonna

Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central

Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)

Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, London)

Suprematist Composition

Susanna and the Elders (Rubens)

Tahitian Women on the Beach

Temptations of Christ (Botticelli)

Testament and Death of Moses

The Abbey in the Oakwood

The Absinthe Drinker (Manet)

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deijman

The Angel with Golden Hair

The Apotheosis of War

The Apotheosis of Washington

The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (Titian)

The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio and Leonardo)

The Basket of Apples

The Battle of Alexander at Issus

The Battle of Anghiari (Leonardo)

The Battle of San Romano

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge (Giulio Romano)

The Beaneater

The Bellelli Family

The Birth of Venus

The Black Brunswicker

The Blind Girl

The Blue Boy

The Boulevard Montmartre at Night

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

The Burial of the Sardine

The Calling of Saint Matthew

The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew

The Card Players

The Cardsharps

The Choice of Hercules (Carracci)

The Circumcision (Parmigianino)

The Clubfoot

The Concert (Vermeer)

The Conversion of Saint Paul

The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo)

The Coronation of Charlemagne

The Coronation of Napoleon

The Creation of Adam

The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Paris)

The Crowning with Thorns (van Dyck)

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Michelangelo)

The Death of General Wolfe

The Death of Marat

The Death of Sardanapalus

The Death of Young Bara

The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

The Dog (Goya)

The Elephant Celebes

The Embarkation for Cythera

The Enchanted Pose

The Epic of American Civilization

The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke

The Fall of the Damned

The Family Reunion (painting)

The Farm (Miro)

The Feast of the Gods (van Bijlert)

The Fifer

The Fighting Temeraire

The Fire in the Borgo

The Floating Feather

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Geographer

The Gleaners

The Hay Wain

The Heart of the Andes

The Horse Fair

The Hunters in the Snow

The Jewish Bride

The Jungle (Wifredo Lam)

The Just Judges

The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald

The Kiss (Klimt)

The Lacemaker (Vermeer)

The Last Judgment (Klontzas)

The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)

The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier

The Last Supper (Ghirlandaio)

The Last Supper (Leonardo)

The Laughing Cavalier

The Light of the World (Hunt)

The Lonely Tree

The Loves of Paris and Helen

The Mass at Bolsena

The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila

The Merciful Knight

The Merry Drinker

The Mild Mild West

The Milkmaid (Vermeer)

The Night Cafe

The Night Watch

The Ninth Wave

The Oxbow (Cole)

The Oyster Eater

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon

The Painter's Studio

The Parable of the Blind

The Parnassus

The Peace Kids

The Persistence of Memory

The Potato Eaters

The Preaching of the Antichrist

The Prophet Isaiah (Raphael)

The Races at Longchamp

The Raft of the Medusa

The Rescue (painting)

The Resurrection (Piero della Francesca)

The Rigi

The Romans in their Decadence

The Rommelpot Player

The Rooks Have Returned

The Roses of Heliogabalus

The Sacrament of the Last Supper

The School of Athens

The Scream

The Shepherdess

The Shrimp Girl

The Slave Market (Boulanger)

The Slave Ship

The Sleeping Gypsy

The Son of a Migrant from Syria

The Son of Man

The Song of Love

The Sources of Music and The Triumph of Music

The Spear (painting)

The Starry Night

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

The Street Enters the House

The Surrender of Breda

The Swallow's Tail

The Swimming Hole

The Tempest (Giorgione)

The Ten Largest

The Third of May 1808

The Tightrope Dancer

The Tower of Blue Horses

The Treachery of Images

The Tree of Crows

The Tribute Money (Masaccio)

The Triumph of Death (Palermo)

The Two Fridas

The Vale of Rest

The Vision of the Cross

The Watzmann

The Weeping Woman

The Woman in the Waves

The Wounded Angel

The Yellow Christ

Theotokos of Kursk

Theotokos of Pochayiv

Theotokos of Tikhvin

Tillie (murals)

Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA

Tomb of the Diver

Tower (Keith Haring)

Tragic Prelude

Transfiguration (Raphael)

Trinity (Andrei Rublev)

Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony

Triumph of the Name of Jesus

Trojeručica

Tuna Fishing (painting)

Tuttomondo

Two Monkeys (Bruegel)

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

United Nations Security Council mural

Valentine's Banksy

Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman

Venus of Urbino

View of Delft

View of Toledo

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Masaccio)

Virgin of Smolensk

Virgin of Vladimir

Vision of St. John on Patmos

Visitation (Ghirlandaio)

Waiting (Degas)

Wall of Love

Wall of Respect

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Water Lilies (Monet series)

Watson and the Shark

Well Hung Lover

What Our Lord Saw from the Cross

Wheat Field with a Lark

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Wheatfield with Crows

When Will You Marry?

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Whistler's Mother

White Angel

Willem van Heythuysen Posing with a Sword

Wilton Diptych

Wing of a European Roller

Woman at a Window

Woman I

Woman with a Hat

Woman with a Mirror

Word of Life (mural)

Yellow Cow

Young Hare

Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer)

Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity

Youth of Moses

Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art

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