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"Death of Socrates"- Jacques Louis David, French, 1787. / "The Oath of the Horatii"- Jacques Louis David, French,1784. / "The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons"-Jacques Louis David. 1789 "The Courtyard of a House in Delft"- Pieter De Hooch. Dutch, 1658. / "Interior"-Pieter De Hooch. / "Money Lenders"-Massys 1514 Louvre / "The Arnolfini Marriage", 1434, oil on panel, National Gallery at London. Eyck, Jan van "Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid" Jan Vermeer / "Woman Holding a Balance", 1664, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C. -Jan Vermeer / "Young Woman with a Water Jug"-Jan Vermeer / "View of Delft"-Jan Vermeer, Dutch. / "The Geographer", 1668-69, oil on canvas, St�delsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt / "The Music Lesson", Vermeer 1662-65, oil on canvas, Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II "Girl Interrupted at Her Music", 1660-61, oil on canvas, Frick Collection, New York. / "The Artist's Studio", Vermeer, 1665, oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum at Vienna. / "Lady with her Maidservant", 1667-68, oil on canvas, Frick Collection, New York. / "Street Scene"-Vermeer "Nymphs and Satyr"-William Bouguereau 1873, oil on canvas, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. / "Young Girl Defending Herself against Eros", William Bouguereau 1880, oil on canvas, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. / "Cupidon", William Bouguereau 1875, Bridgeman Art Library, London / "Les Oreades" William Bouguereau1902. / "Song of the Angels", William Bouguereau, 1881, oil on canvas, Museum at Forest-Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale. "Fra Luca Pacioli and Pupil" -J. deBarbari 1440-1516 Capodimonte Museum Naples. Fra Luca was a famous mathematician and teacher of sacred geometry. / "Birth of Venus"-Sandro Botticelli, 1480, tempera on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence / "Eleanora di Toledo with her son Giovanni de' Medici", Bronzino, 1550, oil on wood, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. When her tomb was opened several hundred years after her death, she was found dressed in the dress shown in the painting. "Salisbury
Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds",
John
Constable 1823, oil on canvas,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London. / "View
from a Window in the Marienstrasse" "A
French Interior"- LeNain
Brothers 1645 Oil on
canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. /
"Four
Figures at a Table"
-LeNain
Brothers, 1630-39Oil on canvas National
Gallery, London. / "Peasants
in a Tavern"- LeNain
Brothers 1640s. Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"- Bernini, Italian, located in St. Maria dela Vittoria Church, Rome "Apollo and Daphne"-Bernini (1622-1625) "Greek Slave" 1869 Hiram S. Powers, American (1805-1873) "Dying Gaul"--Capitoline Museum, Rome. An ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture that is thought to have been executed in bronze, One of my favorites. I noticed when walking around this piece, that near the toe of the out stretched leg, you can see the faintly engraved cross-hair that the artist used likely to align his perspective.
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