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The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations. The complex ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The Blind Man (painting) Blind Veit Stoss with his granddaughter; Blinking Sam; Bonaparte, First Consul (Gros) The Brigadier (painting) Gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown; Bust of a Man Wearing a Gorget and Plumed Beret
Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; / ˌ k ær ə ˈ v æ dʒ i oʊ /, US: /-ˈ v ɑː dʒ (i) oʊ /; Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da (k)karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571 [1] – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. His ...
[2]: 14–15 It is located in the Church of S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is most famous for his central figure of Moses, [6]: 58, 112 completed in 1516 [7] [failed verification]. Of the other statues intended for the tomb, two known as the Heroic Captive / Rebellious Slave and the Dying Captive / Dying Slave, are now in the Louvre.
List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille; List of paintings by Arnold Böcklin; List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch; List of paintings by Sandro Botticelli; List of works by François Boucher; List of paintings by Eugène Boudin; List of paintings by Valentin de Boulogne; List of paintings by Ford Madox Brown; List of paintings by Pieter ...