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Depicts a nude woman laying on a bed of pillows, commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maja_desnuda -
Depicts Napoleon I visiting sick soldiers in 1799 in Jaffa, Syria, at the end of his Egyptian Campaign. The campaign was violent and brutal. Oil paint. https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/paintings/2-bonaparte-visiting-the-plague-victims-of-jaffa/ -
This painting depicts three children playing in a garden. This painting is unique because it was one of the first times children were focused on as the subject of a painting, which was unusual at the time in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_H%C3%BClsenbeck_Children -
Intended to allude to the presence of God for its lack of illusion of depth. Created by famous romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monk_by_the_Sea#/media/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Der_M%C3%B6nch_am_Meer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg -
This painting depicts Napolean on his warhorse preparing for an attack. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charging_Chasseur -
Intended to memorialize the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War. Oil on Canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808#/media/File:El_Tres_de_Mayo,_by_Francisco_de_Goya,_from_Prado_thin_black_margin.jpg -
The painting depicts a nude woman lounging in bed and looking over her shoulder at the spectators. the painting is intended to depict a woman in a harem. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Odalisque -
Considered to be the masterpiece of the romanticism era. Oil on Canvas.
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Considered an instant classic for the romanticism movement. Oil on canvas. https://www.artble.com/imgs/d/f/c/434805/the_raft_of_the_medusa.jpg -
Depicts the Greek mythology tale of Cronus, who, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children, ate them after birth. Oil on canvas. https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/saturn-devouring-his-son-1823-1 -
Depicts a rural landscape of workers on the river Stour in England. Oil on Canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hay_Wain#/media/File:John_Constable_-_The_Hay_Wain_(1821).jpg -
The Death of Sardanapalus depicts a scene from the tale of Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Sardanapalus#/media/File:Delacroix_-_La_Mort_de_Sardanapale_(1827).jpg -
Intended to commemorate the July Revolution in Paris that removed Charles X, the restored Bourbon king, from the throne. Oil painting. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Liberty-Leading-the-People -
This painting was a depiction of an American landscape with a million different possible interpretations according to the artist, Thomas Cole. Oil on canvas. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10497 -
"This is the last journey of the Fighting Temeraire, a celebrated gunship which had fought valiantly in Lord Nelson's fleet at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Thirty three years later, decaying and no longer in use, she was towed up the Thames to be broken up in a Rotherhithe shipyard." (The National Gallery, n.d) Oil on canvas, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/paintings-in-depth/heroine-of-trafalgar-the-fighting-temeraire -
This is a self-portrait of the artist, Gustave Courbet. Many of his pieces were self-portraits for he believed artists should paint what they see around them. Oil paint. artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-probing-gustave-courbets-inner-thoughts-the-desperate-man -
Depicting a bridal part crossing a fjord in rowing boats after a wedding. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_Procession_on_the_Hardangerfjord#/media/File:Adolph_Tidemand_&_Hans_Gude_-_Bridal_Procession_on_the_Hardangerfjord_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg -
"It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship. The debris, in the shape of the cross, appears to be a Christian metaphor for salvation from the earthly sin." (WikiArt, n.d) -
This was a commissioned painting and one of Francesco Hayez's most popular works. Oil on canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Hayez) -
Created to exhibit a woman's natural allure. "Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair and seductively exposes her shoulders. " (TheMet, n.d) Watercolor and bodycolor from drawing. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337500
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