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The Castle of Muiden in Winter is a 1658 oil on canvas painting by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, now in the National Gallery, London. It shows Muiden Castle near Amsterdam, with several figures ice skating in the foreground.
Nunc Dimittis or Sacred Conversation is a 1505-1510 oil on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini. It measures 62 cm by 83 cm and is now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. It belongs to the sacra conversazione genre and shows Anna and Simeon with the Madonna and Child.
and the right panel depicts the Virgin and Christ child surrounded by cherubim. The two pieces, originally a diptych, are now separated. The left panel now resides in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin and the right panel is now located at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
The Struggle for Existence - George Bouverie Goddard, 1879. (Walker Art Gallery)
Montaigne Visiting Torquato Tasso in Prison (French - Le Tasse en prison visité par Montaigne or Le Tasse et Montaigne) is an 1821 oil on canvas painting by Fleury François Richard. It is one of the artist's last paintings. (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon)
Saint Anthony of Padua is a 1580 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The Romans in their Decadence (French - Les Romains de la décadence) is a painting by the French artist Thomas Couture, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1847, a year before the 1848 Revolution which toppled the July Monarchy. (Musée d'Orsay)