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Painting, Watercolour, Plastic Arts, Woodcuts, Etching, Drawing.



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Altars

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Enamel

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Engravings

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Fresco and Wallpainting

FRESCO AND WALLPAINTING

Goldsmith Works

GOLDSMITH WORKS

Handicraft

HANDICRAFT

Jewelry

JEWELRY

Mosaics

MOSAICS

Painting

PAINTING

Plastic Arts

PLASTIC ARTS

Posters

POSTERS

Prints

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Relief

RELIEF

Sculpture

SCULPTURE

Silverwork

SILVERWORK

Textile Works

TEXTILE WORKS

Watercolour

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14,174 photos
Head of the Dead Christ, 1503. Dramatic drawing of the dead Christ.The Crown of Thorns pierces his forehead; the long strands of hair hang limply down, the curls of his beard stand out. The text,written by the artist, says that Duerer made "two faces" when he was ill that year. PD,SI 5218-29
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Head of the Dead Christ, 1503. Dramatic drawing of the dead Christ.The Crown of...

"The Sun,the Moon and a Basilisk", around 1512. The sun, the moon and the basilisk (half eagle, half serpent,hatched from a cock's egg by a serpent), together represent Eternity. This small drawing is a fragment from a translation of the "Hieroglyphica" by Horapollo, translated by Willibald Pirkheimer, a foremost humanist and close friend of Duerer. PD 1932-7-9-2
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"The Sun,the Moon and a Basilisk", around 1512. The sun, the moon and the basili...

Four studies of a child, a red chalk drawing with red wash Italy, around 1520 CE. Studies for the painting "Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist",in which John the Baptist faces in the opposite direction. The four studies were drawn rapidly from a model and show how much affort the artist made to perfect his art. 258 mm x 377 mm PD, 1896-8-10-1
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Four studies of a child, a red chalk drawing with red wash Italy, around 1520 C...

Christ on the Cross, around 1541. This drawing shows the crucified and living Christ with his head turned upwards to heaven. Two mourning angels hover in the sky below the arms of the cross. At the foot of the cross lies a skull to indicate the setting as Golgatha (The place of the skull in Hebrew). PD 1895-9-15-504
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Christ on the Cross, around 1541. This drawing shows the crucified and living Ch...

Calumny of Apelles, 1565. An allegory in which Truth triumphs over all her enemies. The subject is taken from a painting by the classical Greek artist Apelles. Latin titles explain the figures: Sitting on a throne to the right is a king with large ears. He stretches out his hand past two female figures labelled Ignorance and Suspicion, towards Slander. Slander holds a blazing torch and drags a young man who prays to heaven for the gods to witness his innocence. Treachery,Deceit and Envy follow suit, far behind come Penitence and Naked Truth. PD,1959-2-14-1
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Calumny of Apelles, 1565. An allegory in which Truth triumphs over all her enemi...

Goldsmith's Workshop, 1576.Craftsmen sit at a worktable; they have leather aprons tucked into their belts to catch the filings of precious metal. On the right a youth holds a pair of tongs, with a bellows and anvil by his side. The boy on the left is drawing wire. Delaune worked as a goldsmith in Paris in 1546. PD, 1951-11-20-5
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Goldsmith's Workshop, 1576.Craftsmen sit at a worktable; they have leather apron...

The Faro Table, 1792. Faro was a card game in which players bet on the order that certain cards would appear when taken from the top of the pack. Here,cards are controlled by the man standing on the right, while money is raked in by the demon croupier on the left. PD, 1867-10-12-608
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The Faro Table, 1792. Faro was a card game in which players bet on the order tha...

Michelangelo before the Roman Colosseum, 1801. In the 1780ies Blake developed a friendship with Johann Heinrich Fuessli who was Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts. This engraving is the tailpiece to the third and last lecture delivered in 1801; Fuessli used to give his pupils preliminary drawings from which to engrave. PD,1864-5-14
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Michelangelo before the Roman Colosseum, 1801. In the 1780ies Blake developed a...

Standing Female Nude, around 1810. Prud'hon was commissioned to decorate the Hotel de Ville in Paris in celebration of the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise in 1810. For this he designed a colonnade topped by ten figures representing the arts, sciences and industry. This nude was clothed in the final scheme and represented Navigation. PD 1986-2-10-18
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Standing Female Nude, around 1810. Prud'hon was commissioned to decorate the Hot...

The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, 1859. This image was the design for an imperial cameo. In 1859 Napoleon III commissioned the sculptor Adolphe David to carve a companion cameo to the largest surviving cameo from the classical world, the Grand Camee de la Chapelle Royale. Ingres made this design for David in the shape of the Grande Camee, based on a design for a ceiling in the Hotel de Ville in Paris. The ceiling, executed by Ingres in 1853 (but destroyed by fire in 1871) showed the same subject. Although David worked on this commission for thirteen years, no large enough stone was ever found and the final cameo showed only the central group of figures. The date (1821) inscribed by Ingres next to his name at the lower left of the drawing is the date of Napoleon's death. PD, 1949-2-12-6
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The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, 1859. This image was the design for an imperial ca...

Mme.Destouches, nee Armande Edmee Charton, at the time of the portrait newly married to the architect Destouches. Signed 1816. Paper, 43 x 28,5 cm RF 1747
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Mme.Destouches, nee Armande Edmee Charton, at the time of the portrait newly mar...

Christ handing the keys to Saint Peter. Dated 1815. Paper,pen,brown ink and watercolour over pencil. 27 x 18,4 cm RF 1445
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Christ handing the keys to Saint Peter. Dated 1815. Paper,pen,brown ink and wat...