Examples of Famous Works
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Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434
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La donna velata, Raphael, 1516
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The Rape of Europa, Titian, 1562
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The Raising of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–11
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Bust of an old man with helmet, Rembrandt, 1630
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Innocent X, Velázquez, c 1650
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The Toilet of Venus, François Boucher, 1751
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The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
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Le Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876
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Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
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The Cardplayers, Paul Cézanne, 1892
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Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1916
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Famous quotes containing the words examples of, examples, famous and/or works:
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people’s attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)