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The 10 Most Famous Symbolist Paintings
Discover 10 famous Symbolist paintings, ranked by search demand, from The Scream and The Kiss to Isle of the Dead, with their meanings explained.
Famous Paintings, Explained
The stories behind famous paintings, the painters who made them, and the movements that shaped them. Every work here can be recreated by hand in oil on canvas.
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Witches' Flight by Goya
Three figures fly through the dark carrying a helpless body. Below, one man refuses to look, another covers his ears, and a donkey watches. A…
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The Chess Players by Moritz Retzsch
A young man plays chess against the Devil for his soul while an angel watches. Retzsch’s 1831 composition became linked to a later legend that…
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The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel
The Fallen Angel (L'Ange déchu) is an 1847 painting by Alexandre Cabanel showing Lucifer just after his fall from heaven, hiding his face behind…
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The 10 Most Famous Baroque Artists
Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rubens, Velázquez and four more: the 10 famous Baroque artists people search for most, with…
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The 10 Most Famous Baroque Paintings
The 10 famous Baroque paintings people search for most, from Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Las Meninas to The Night Watch and…
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The 10 Most Famous Post-Impressionist Artists
Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec and five more: who the Post-Impressionists were, what they changed, and one great painting by…
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The 10 Most Famous Post-Impressionist Paintings
The 10 famous Post-Impressionist paintings people search for most, from Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Sunflowers to Seurat and Cézanne, with the…
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The 10 Most Famous Renaissance Artists
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli and six more: the 10 famous Renaissance artists people search for most, with their faces, one great…
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The 10 Most Famous Renaissance Paintings
The 10 famous Renaissance paintings people search for most, from the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper to The Birth of Venus, with the story behind…
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The 10 Most Famous Impressionist Artists
Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Cassatt and five more: the 10 famous Impressionist artists people search for most, with their faces, one great…
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The 10 Most Famous Impressionist Paintings
Explore ten famous Impressionist paintings, with full stories, detail crops, artist profiles and museum references, from Monet and Renoir to…
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Saint Casilda by Zurbarán
Saint Casilda (c. 1635) by Francisco de Zurbarán shows the legendary princess of Toledo whose bread for Christian prisoners turned into roses,…
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Saint Francis in Meditation by Zurbarán
Saint Francis in Meditation (1635 to 1639) by Francisco de Zurbarán shows the saint kneeling in a patched habit, his face hidden in the shadow of…
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Saint Serapion by Zurbarán
Saint Serapion (1628) by Francisco de Zurbarán shows a Mercedarian friar who gave his life to free Christian captives, hanging by his wrists in a…
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Agnus Dei by Zurbarán
Agnus Dei (c. 1635 to 1640) by Francisco de Zurbarán shows a lamb with its feet bound, lying on a stone ledge against a dark background: the Lamb…
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Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose by Zurbarán
Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633) is the only still life Francisco de Zurbarán signed and dated: three groups of objects in a row…
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10 Famous Zurbarán Paintings and Their Stories
Discover 10 famous Zurbarán paintings, from Agnus Dei and Saint Serapion to his still lifes. Explore their stories, details and museum collections.
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