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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Bunya no Asayasu, 10th: Five temple-boys or pages try to steer their boat despite the strong wind. They are harvesting lotus leaves; one of the boys has a sickle on a long pole.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Bunya no Asayasu, 10th:...

From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Chunagon Atsutada,904-944:A woman scorned - the picture illustrates a ritual by which a woman wants to revenge herself on a lover by nailing a straw image to a tree. She wears a mirror around her neck.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Chunagon Atsutada,904-94...

From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Fujiwara no Yoshitaka,954-974:Four men and two women enjoy bath and rest;two cormorants swim in the pond.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Fujiwara no Yoshitaka,95...

From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Dainagon Tsunenobu,1016-1097:Autumn;wind over the rice-paddies;a Buddhist pilgrim with drum and drumstick holds his hat;men carry rice in baskets;the rice is washed in its basket in the river.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Dainagon Tsunenobu,1016-...

From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Gontchunagon Masafusa,1041-1111:Three men in the foreground have come to admire the cherry blossoms; other visitors climb the steep path;two women fetch water.
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From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Gontchunagon Masafusa,10...

"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...

A bank of Trees, 1645-1650. A broken tree trunk and a dark tree to the right frame the sunlit glade. Claude Lorrain and friends drew from nature in the countryside around Rome. PD, Oo.7-190
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A bank of Trees, 1645-1650. A broken tree trunk and a dark tree to the right fra...

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...

Charlotte-Madeleine Taurel, daughter of the engraver, 1825. Pencil on paper, 16,9 x 12,8 cm RF 4624
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Charlotte-Madeleine Taurel, daughter of the engraver, 1825. Pencil on paper,...

Romulus,vainqueur d'Acron - Romulus' victory over Acron. One of several sketches for a painting of 1812 for the apartments of Empress Marie-Luise at the Palazzo Montecavallo in Rome. Pen and pencil, black ink, grey wash, hightened in white. 33,5 x 53 cm. RF 4623
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Romulus,vainqueur d'Acron - Romulus' victory over Acron. One of several sketche...

Apotheosis of Napoleon I. Inscription, in gold, underneath: "In nepote redivivus erit" - he shall live in his nephew. Tondo, 14.5 cm across. RF 3608
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Apotheosis of Napoleon I. Inscription, in gold, underneath: "In nepote redivivu...

The Flight to Egypt, 1557-1559. Angels are shown pulling down the branches of a tree for the infant Jesus to take the fruit and eat. The Virgin Mary and the Christchild are riding on a donkey, led by the aged Saint Joseph.
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The Flight to Egypt, 1557-1559. Angels are shown pulling down the branches of a...