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Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is a series of large-scale frescoes created between 1508 and 1512 within the Vatic...

Renaissance Religious 16TH Century Fresco

9.90 Brilliant

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The Starry Night

Painted in oil in 1889 while Vincent van Gogh lived at an asylum near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, The Starry Night turns a n...

Landscape Oil Painting Van Gogh Post Impressionist

9.85 Brilliant

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David (Michelangelo)

Completed in 1504, Michelangelo's David is a monumental marble sculpture showing the biblical hero before his confrontat...

Renaissance Marble Sculpture Michelangelo

9.85 Brilliant

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Tutankhamun's Death Mask

Tutankhamun's gold death mask belongs to ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and was made for the young pharaoh's burial...

Gold Ancient Egypt New Kingdom Funerary

9.75 Brilliant

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Las Meninas

Painted in 1656, Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas presents a Spanish royal court scene centered on the Infanta Margarita an...

Baroque Oil Painting Velazquez 1656

9.75 Brilliant

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Newton's Principia Mathematica (first edition)

Published in 1687, the first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is a printed Latin b...

Physics Mathematics Scientific Newton

9.75 Brilliant

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Guernica

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 in response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. This...

Oil Painting 1937 Anti War Picasso

9.70 Brilliant

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Pietà (Michelangelo)

Carved from Carrara marble, Michelangelo's Pietà depicts Mary holding the dead Christ after the crucifixion. The Renaiss...

Renaissance Religious Marble Sculpture

9.70 Brilliant

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Darwin's On the Origin of Species (first edition)

The first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859, presenting natural selection as a centr...

Biology Evolution Scientific Darwin

9.70 Brilliant

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Shakespeare's First Folio

Shakespeare’s First Folio is a printed edition of William Shakespeare's plays assembled in 1623 by John Heminges and Hen...

Literature Elizabethan Plays 1623

9.65 Brilliant

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Gutenberg's Printing Press

Gutenberg’s printing press, created around 1450 in Mainz, Germany, utilized movable type to produce texts quickly and ef...

German Printing Invention 15TH Century

9.65 Brilliant

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The School of Athens

Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” painted in 1511, is a monumental Renaissance fresco within the Vatican. It portrays a...

Renaissance Philosophical Fresco Raphael

9.60 Brilliant

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The Birth of Venus

Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” is a 15th-century tempera painting showcasing the Renaissance interpretation of classi...

Renaissance Mythological 15TH Century Tempera

9.55 Brilliant

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Ghent Altarpiece

The Ghent Altarpiece, created by Jan and Hubert van Eyck in 1432, is a significant religious artwork housed in St. Bavo’...

Religious Northern Renaissance Van Eyck Altarpiece

9.55 Brilliant

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The Calling of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio)

Caravaggio’s “The Calling of Saint Matthew” is a Baroque oil-painting created around 1600. It portrays Jesus summoning M...

Baroque Religious Oil Painting Caravaggio

9.30 Excellent

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Isenheim Altarpiece

The Isenheim Altarpiece, created by Matthias Grünewald circa 1515, is a monumental religious artwork housed in the Monas...

Religious 16TH Century Altarpiece German Renaissance

9.20 Excellent

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Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is a lavish 15th-century French illuminated manuscript. Created for John, Duke of...

French Medieval Illuminated Manuscript 15TH Century

9.10 Excellent

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Martin Luther's 95 Theses (Wittenberg broadsheet)

Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, reputedly posted in Wittenberg in 1517, were a scholarly challenge to the Catholic C...

German Religious Reformation Printed

8.95 Great

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Lindau Gospels

The Lindau Gospels is a 9th-century illuminated manuscript notable for its jewel-encrusted gold front cover, an outstand...

Illuminated Manuscript Religious Carolingian 9TH Century

8.40 Great

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Canterbury Tales Ellesmere Manuscript

The Ellesmere Chaucer is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript containing Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It...

Medieval English 15TH Century Chaucer

8.35 Great