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The Sacrilegious Theft - Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1731.
The painting illustrates a crime committed on January 6, 1731. The canvas belongs to the church where the attempted sacrilegious robbery took place but for safety reasons it is kept in the Diocesan Museum in Milan.
Mary, Countess Howe - Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1764.
Oil on canvas. (Kenwood House). #art
The Melun Diptych is a two-panel oil painting by the French court painter Jean Fouquet (c. 1420–1481) created around 1452. The left panel depicts Etienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen and the right panel depicts Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim.
Konstantin Vasilyev (1942 – 1976) was a Russian symbolist painter. His range of works included portraits, landscapes, realistic compositions, Russian epics, Slavic and Teutonic mythology, and battle paintings.
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff) – Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1541. (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). #art
The Torment of Saint Anthony (c. 1487–88) is the first known painting by Michelangelo, painted as a close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only twelve or thirteen years old. (Kimbell Art Museum). #art
Portrait of a Gentleman - Giovanni Battista Moroni, c. 1555.
The man in this portrait has not been identified. The column shaft may symbolise the sitter's fortitude or, since it is broken, his misfortunes. (The National Gallery, London). #art
View of Bayeux - Thomas Shotter Boys, 1832.
(Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Joshua stops the sun - Ilario Spolverini, 1721-27.
(Musei Civici di Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza). #art