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The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1599 to 1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. It depicts Christ indicating Matthew among a group seated around a table, while a strong diagonal beam of light organizes the scene; contemporary dress, r...

The Entombment of Christ is an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1602 to 1604 for a chapel in the Chiesa Nuova in Rome and now held by the Vatican Pinacoteca. It shows Christ's body being carried toward a stone slab by Nicodemus and John, with mourning women behind them; the figures form a desc...

La Primavera is a large mythological painting made by Sandro Botticelli, probably in the late 1470s or early 1480s, and now displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Its orange grove contains Venus, Cupid, Mercury, the Three Graces, Zephyrus, Chloris, and Flora, although the precise meaning of th...

The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting created by Caravaggio around 1599 to 1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. It depicts Christ entering a dim room and calling Matthew, traditionally identified as a tax collector seated among men counting money....

The Raft of the Medusa is a monumental oil painting completed by Theodore Gericault in 1818 to 1819 and now displayed in the Louvre. It represents survivors of the French frigate Meduse, which ran aground off West Africa in 1816, leaving passengers and crew on a makeshift raft where many died. Geric...

The Return of the Prodigal Son is a late painting by Rembrandt, generally dated to the final years of his life and now held by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. It depicts the conclusion of Christ's parable in which a wayward son returns home and is received by his father, while severa...

View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, generally dated around 1660 to 1661, showing his native Dutch city from across the Kolk harbor. Recognizable buildings include the Schiedam Gate, Rotterdam Gate, and the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk, although Vermeer adjusted architectural and lighti...

The Milkmaid is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, usually dated around 1658 to 1660, depicting a domestic servant pouring milk into an earthenware container. The sparse room contains bread, pottery, a foot warmer, and other carefully observed household objects, while daylight enters through a win...

Sunflowers commonly refers to two groups of still-life paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in Paris and Arles during the late 1880s. The better-known Arles series shows cut sunflowers at different stages of growth and decay arranged in simple vases, using a restricted range of yellows made possible b...

The Third of May 1808 is an oil painting completed by Francisco Goya in 1814, six years after French troops executed Spanish civilians during the occupation of Madrid. It centers on an illuminated prisoner facing an anonymous firing squad, with dead bodies in the foreground and other captives awaiti...

The Venus of Urbino is an oil painting completed by Titian in 1538 for Guidobaldo della Rovere and now held by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It shows a nude woman reclining in a Venetian interior, meeting the viewer's gaze while attendants search through a chest in the background. The small dog, r...

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is an oil painting completed by Édouard Manet in 1863. It presents a nude woman seated outdoors with two fully dressed men, while another woman bathes in the background, combining references to earlier European art with a deliberately contemporary setting. Rejected by the off...

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1600 to 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. It depicts three laborers raising a cross on which the elderly Peter has been nailed upside down, emphasizing physical weight, effort, and rough materials r...

The Pesaro Altarpiece, also known as the Madonna di Ca' Pesaro, was painted by Titian between 1519 and 1526 for the Pesaro family chapel in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice. It presents the Virgin and Child with saints, donors, and military imagery in a composition organized around a strong di...

Wheat Field with Crows is an oil-on-canvas landscape painted by Vincent van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890. It shows a dark sky, a field of yellow wheat, branching paths, and a flock of black birds, using vigorous strokes and strong color contrasts. Although often described as his final painti...

Water Lilies is the collective title for a large body of paintings in which Claude Monet studied the lily pond at his home in Giverny. Works dated 1906 concentrate on the water's surface, reflections, floating plants, and shifting light, often reducing or eliminating the visible horizon. These paint...

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is an 1882 oil painting by Édouard Manet and his last major completed work. A barmaid stands before bottles, fruit, and flowers in a crowded Paris entertainment venue, while the mirror behind her reflects the auditorium and a male customer. Deliberate spatial ambiguities...

The Seven Works of Mercy is an altarpiece painted by Caravaggio in 1606 to 1607 for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, where it remains. It compresses the seven corporal acts of mercy into a crowded nocturnal street scene, including feeding the hungry, visiting prisoners, sheltering travele...

The Card Players is a series of five oil paintings made by Paul Cézanne during the 1890s. The compositions show Provençal working men absorbed in a card game, with versions ranging from two quiet figures to larger groups accompanied by spectators. Cézanne replaced anecdotal action with stable forms,...

Café Terrace at Night is an oil painting made by Vincent van Gogh in Arles in September 1888. It depicts the illuminated terrace of a café on the Place du Forum beneath a deep blue, star-filled sky, contrasting yellow artificial light with blue and violet nighttime tones. Van Gogh painted the scene...

The Jewish Bride is an oil painting by Rembrandt, generally dated to the mid-1660s and now held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It shows a richly dressed man placing one hand on a woman's shoulder and another on her chest as she gently touches his hand. The sitters' identities remain uncertain, whi...

The Disrobing of Christ, commonly called El Espolio, is an oil painting completed by El Greco in 1579 for Toledo Cathedral, where it remains in the sacristy. The composition places Christ in a vivid red robe at the center of a compressed crowd of soldiers and onlookers, while figures preparing the c...

The Conversion of Saint Paul is an oil painting made by Caravaggio around 1600 to 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. It shows Paul fallen beneath a large horse as he experiences divine light, reducing the biblical event to a few figures within a dark, confined space; the pai...

Caravaggio painted Death of the Virgin around 1601-1606 for a Carmelite church in Rome, but the completed altarpiece was rejected by its patrons. The work depicts the dead Virgin with an unidealized body, surrounded by grieving apostles and Mary Magdalene beneath a large red curtain. Acquired after...

Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (c. 1503-1519) shows three generations of the Holy Family in a pyramidal composition and is considered one of his supreme achievements, now in the Louvre, Paris.

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is an abstract oil painting made by Piet Mondrian in 1930. Black horizontal and vertical lines divide a white field into unequal rectangles, with selected areas filled in primary colors and black. The work exemplifies Mondrian's Neo-Plastic approach, developed i...

The Slave Ship is an 1840 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner, formally titled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On. It shows a ship moving into a violent, blood-red sea while shackled human figures struggle in the foreground, addressing the murder of enslaved people for fina...

Oath of the Horatii is a large oil painting completed by Jacques-Louis David in 1784, before the French Revolution, and now held by the Louvre. It depicts three Roman brothers extending their arms toward swords held by their father, while women and children grieve at the side. Its severe architectur...

Bedroom in Arles is the title given to three closely related oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh showing his bedroom in the Yellow House in Arles, France. He painted the first version in 1888 and later produced two repetitions, varying details such as the pictures on the wall. The tilted perspective,...