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Italian painter Caravaggio created an oil painting titled The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. The painting is frequently cited as Caravaggio's masterpiece and "one of the most important works...

This painting was created in 1936 to serve as the stage curtain for Romain Rolland's play Le 14 Juillet. The work, which stands about 9 metres tall and more than...

The Sound of Silence, one of Alfredo Jaar's most renowned monumental and involving installations, will be the centerpiece of his first solo exhibition in Poland, at the Centre of Contemporary...

The Absinthe Drinker is an early painting by Édouard Manet, completed around 1859, that is considered his first major painting and original work. Manet began as a student in Thomas...

This large vessel's hourglass shape is reminiscent of the shape of ceremonial braziers, which were closely associated with the religious architecture in Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs. Three hollow,...

John Quidor (January 26, 1801 – December 13, 1881) was a historical and literary painter from the United States. He is known to have painted approximately 35 canvases, the majority...

Paintings by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà primarily produced between 1911 and 1920 are considered examples of metaphysical art. De Chirico, who is credited with starting...

Théodore Géricault created Portrait of a Kleptomaniac or Portrait of an Insane Person in 1822. It is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, and...

Girl with Peaches is a painting by Russian artist Valentin Serov from 1887. It is regarded as one of Serov's best and most well-known compositions. Igor Grabar, a Russian art...

Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted on the north interior wall of Padua's Scrovegni Chapel in 1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle...