❦ The Chronicle ❦

60 entries and 10 figures across the eras

Prehistoric

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Ancient (3000 BC–500 AD)

7 entries

Aphrodite

Greek

Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Born of sea foam; rose from the Cyprian waters fully formed.

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1485, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Public domain.

Apollo

Greek

God of light, music, prophecy, healing, and the arts. Twin to Artemis.

Apollo Belvedere, Roman marble copy after a Greek bronze original, c. 120-140 CE, Vatican Museums. Public domain.

Athena

Greek

Goddess of wisdom, warfare, and craft. Sprung fully armed from the head of Zeus.

Varvakeion Athena, Roman marble copy of Phidias's lost chryselephantine, 2nd-3rd century CE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Public domain.

Dionysus

Greek

God of wine, ecstasy, the vine, and theatrical mask. Born of mortal mother, twice-born of god.

Caravaggio, Bacchus, c. 1596, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Public domain.

Anubis

Egyptian

Jackal-headed god of mummification, embalming, and the journey of the dead. Weighs the heart against the feather of Ma'at.

Anubis attending the mummy of Sennedjem, tomb painting, 19th Dynasty (c. 1295-1213 BCE), Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Public domain (ancient).

Isis

Egyptian

Mother goddess, wife and sister of Osiris, mother of Horus. Patron of magic, motherhood, and kingship.

Winged Isis, Egyptian artifact, Smithsonian American Art Museum (accession 1929.8.154), photographed under SAAM open-access. Ancient source: public domain.

Ra

Egyptian

Sun god, creator deity. Sails the solar barge across the sky by day and through the underworld by night.

Ra-Horakhty (Ra in his Horus-of-the-Horizon form), after Egyptian tomb iconography. Vector reproduction on Wikimedia Commons, public-domain release.

Early Medieval (500–1000)

3 entries

Odin

Norse

All-father of the Aesir, god of wisdom, poetry, runes, and battle. Hung himself nine days on Yggdrasil to gain knowledge of the runes.

Georg von Rosen, Odin the Wanderer, 1886. Illustration for the 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda. Public domain.

Thor

Norse

God of thunder, lightning, storms, and the protector of mankind. Wielder of Mjolnir.

Mårten Eskil Winge, Tor's Fight with the Giants, 1872, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Public domain.

Freyja

Norse

Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, and seidr (magic). Drives a chariot pulled by two cats.

Nils Blommér, Freyja sökande sin make (Freyja Seeking Her Husband), 1852, with her cat-drawn chariot and accompanying angels. Public domain.

High Medieval (1000–1300)

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1400s

3 entries

Tres Riches Heures: January

Painting · Limbourg Brothers

The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412-1416), the January calendar page shown here, is the supreme surviving Gothic illuminated manuscript.Crosses International Gothic × Painting × Christiani

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Primavera

Painting · Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1480) is one of the most studied paintings of the Italian Renaissance, an allegory of spring peopled by Venus, Mercury, the Three Graces, Flora and Zephyrus.Crosses Renaissa

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Birth of Venus

Tempera on canvas · Sandro Botticelli

Painted around 1485 for the Medici circle in Florence, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus shows the goddess Venus, the Greek Aphrodite, arriving on the shore of Cythera. Born of the sea foam, she stan

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

1500s

8 entries

Madonna with the Long Neck

Painting · Parmigianino

Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck (1535) is a defining work of Mannerism, its elongated proportions and cool elegance a deliberate departure from High Renaissance balance.Crosses Mannerism × P

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Bacchus and Ariadne

Painting · Titian

Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (1523) is a high point of the Venetian Renaissance, the god leaping from his chariot toward Ariadne in a blaze of ultramarine.Crosses Renaissance × Painting × Greek Mythol

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Medusa

Painting · Caravaggio

Caravaggio's Medusa (c. 1597), painted on a ceremonial parade shield, fixes the Gorgon at the instant of decapitation, the scream and serpents rendered with the violent realism that drove the whole Ba

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

1600s

10 entries

Et in Arcadia ego

Painting · Nicolas Poussin

Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1638) is the great meditation of Baroque classicism: shepherds in an idyllic Arcadia reading a tomb's inscription, death present even in paradise.Crosses Baroque × Pain

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

View of Toledo

Painting · El Greco

El Greco's View of Toledo (c. 1600) is one of the only pure landscapes of the Spanish Renaissance and a peak of Mannerism, the city seen under a storm-charged, almost visionary sky.Crosses Mannerism ×

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Painting · Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) is the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age tronies, a study in light, gaze, and the single luminous pearl.Crosses Baroque × Painting × 1600s. Reference.

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

1700s

6 entries

The Death of Socrates

Painting · Jacques-Louis David

David's The Death of Socrates (1787) is a manifesto of Neoclassicism: the philosopher reaches for the hemlock mid-argument, still teaching as he dies.Crosses Neoclassicism × Painting × Socrates, an ar

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

A Man Offering Gifts at the Altar of Venus

Stipple engraving · Francesco Bartolozzi

Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) was among the most celebrated engravers of the eighteenth century. Born in Florence, he settled in London in 1764, became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 176

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

1800s

1 entry

The Coronation of Napoleon

Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David

The painting is six metres by ten. It took David three years to finish. It is the most consequential single piece of imperial propaganda produced by any European regime between Napoleon and the First

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1810s

3 entries

The Abbey in the Oakwood

Oil on canvas · Caspar David Friedrich

Painted between 1809 and 1810, Caspar David Friedrich's The Abbey in the Oakwood is one of the starkest images of German Romanticism. Through a screen of leafless, broken oaks rises the ruined Gothic

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

The Raft of the Medusa

Painting (oil on canvas) · Théodore Géricault

On the second of July 1816 the French frigate Méduse ran aground on the Bank of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania. The frigate had been sailing under a politically appointed captain, Hugues Duroy de

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1820s

2 entries

Scenes from the Massacres at Chios

Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix's decision in 1824 was to paint the aftermath, not the action. The Ottoman massacre of the Greek population of Chios had occurred two years earlier, in April 1822, during the Greek War of In

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1830s

3 entries

Medea about to Kill her Children

Painting · Eugene Delacroix

Delacroix's Medea about to Kill her Children (1838) brings the Greek tragedy into full Romantic register, the sorceress half in shadow at the moment before the act.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Gre

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Woodblock print (Japanese ukiyo-e) · Katsushika Hokusai

Created around 1831 as part of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki Nami-ura) is the single most-recognized image of Japanese

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

1840s

1 entry

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre

Woodblock print · Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kuniyoshi's triptych (c. 1844) is one of the masterworks of ukiyo-e, the sorceress Takiyasha summoning a giant skeleton from a scroll of spells.Crosses Ukiyo-e × Japanese Mythology, bringing a non-Eur

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

1850s

2 entries

The Gleaners

Painting · Jean-Francois Millet

Millet's The Gleaners (1857) is a landmark of Realism, three peasant women stooping over a harvested field given the gravity of a history painting.Crosses Realism × Painting × 1850s, opening the Reali

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Great Day of His Wrath

Oil on canvas · John Martin

John Martin's The Great Day of His Wrath, painted around 1851 to 1853, depicts the end of the world from the Book of Revelation. Whole mountains are torn loose and hurled through a red-black sky; a ci

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

1860s

3 entries

The Questioner of the Sphinx

Painting · Elihu Vedder

Vedder's The Questioner of the Sphinx (1863) is a key American Symbolist work, a lone figure pressing his ear to the lips of the half-buried Egyptian sphinx for an answer that will not come.Crosses Sy

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Oil on canvas · Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau exhibited Oedipus and the Sphinx at the Paris Salon of 1864, and it made his reputation. The painting fixes the moment from Greek myth when Oedipus confronts the Sphinx outside Thebes,

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

Don Quixote (Doré illustration)

Engraving · Gustave Doré

From the 1863 illustrated edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, this Doré engraving shows Don Quixote in his library surrounded by chivalric romances, the books that have driven his imagination into the

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

1870s

5 entries

Asgardsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin)

Painting · Peter Nicolai Arbo

Arbo's Asgardsreien (1872) is the great Romantic painting of the Norse Wild Hunt, Odin and the host of the dead riding across the night sky.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Norse Mythology, and connec

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The Dance Class

Painting · Edgar Degas

Degas' The Dance Class (c. 1874) is one of the central works of Impressionism, the off-centre composition and candid poses learned partly from photography and Japanese prints.Crosses Impressionism × P

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Impression, Sunrise

Painting · Claude Monet

Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872) gave Impressionism its name. The loose, light-first handling of the harbour at Le Havre was the break that reorganised European painting.Crosses Impressionism × Pain

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1880s

4 entries

The Starry Night

Painting · Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) is the defining work of Post-Impressionism, the night sky over Saint-Rémy turned into turbulence and light.Crosses Post-Impressionism × Painting × 1880s, opening the

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Lady of Shalott

Painting (oil on canvas) · John William Waterhouse

Painted in 1888, Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott illustrates the climactic stanza of Tennyson's 1832 poem: the Lady, having looked directly at Lancelot in the mirror and broken the curse, leaves her

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

1890s

6 entries

Goddess Saraswati

Painting · Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma's Goddess Saraswati (1896) is a cornerstone of modern Indian painting, fusing European academic technique with Hindu sacred iconography and putting the gods into mass-reproducible imag

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Bogatyrs

Painting · Viktor Vasnetsov

Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs (1898) is the defining image of Russian and Slavic folk-epic, the three heroes of the byliny rendered at monumental scale.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Slavic Mythology, a cros

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Hylas and the Nymphs

Oil on canvas · John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse painted Hylas and the Nymphs in 1896. The subject is Greek: Hylas, the young companion of Heracles on the voyage of the Argonauts, goes to fill a pitcher at a forest pool and i

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1900s

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1910s

3 entries

The Riders of the Sidhe

Painting · John Duncan

John Duncan's The Riders of the Sidhe (1911) is a central work of the Celtic Revival, the fairy host of Irish and Scottish myth riding in procession.Crosses Symbolism × Painting × Celtic Mythology, a

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Cyclops

Oil on panel · Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon painted The Cyclops around 1914. The one-eyed giant Polyphemus rises from behind a hill of flowers, his single eye fixed on the small sleeping figure of the nymph Galatea below him. In Re

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

Death and Life

Painting (oil on canvas) · Gustav Klimt

Klimt began Death and Life in 1908 and completed it around 1915. A robed figure of Death stands at the left side of the canvas, watching a sleeping cluster of human bodies, lovers, mothers, children,

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

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❦ The Chronicle ❦

60 entries and 10 figures across the eras

Prehistoric

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Ancient (3000 BC–500 AD)

7 entries

Aphrodite

Greek

Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Born of sea foam; rose from the Cyprian waters fully formed.

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1485, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Public domain.

Apollo

Greek

God of light, music, prophecy, healing, and the arts. Twin to Artemis.

Apollo Belvedere, Roman marble copy after a Greek bronze original, c. 120-140 CE, Vatican Museums. Public domain.

Athena

Greek

Goddess of wisdom, warfare, and craft. Sprung fully armed from the head of Zeus.

Varvakeion Athena, Roman marble copy of Phidias's lost chryselephantine, 2nd-3rd century CE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Public domain.

Dionysus

Greek

God of wine, ecstasy, the vine, and theatrical mask. Born of mortal mother, twice-born of god.

Caravaggio, Bacchus, c. 1596, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Public domain.

Anubis

Egyptian

Jackal-headed god of mummification, embalming, and the journey of the dead. Weighs the heart against the feather of Ma'at.

Anubis attending the mummy of Sennedjem, tomb painting, 19th Dynasty (c. 1295-1213 BCE), Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Public domain (ancient).

Isis

Egyptian

Mother goddess, wife and sister of Osiris, mother of Horus. Patron of magic, motherhood, and kingship.

Winged Isis, Egyptian artifact, Smithsonian American Art Museum (accession 1929.8.154), photographed under SAAM open-access. Ancient source: public domain.

Ra

Egyptian

Sun god, creator deity. Sails the solar barge across the sky by day and through the underworld by night.

Ra-Horakhty (Ra in his Horus-of-the-Horizon form), after Egyptian tomb iconography. Vector reproduction on Wikimedia Commons, public-domain release.

Early Medieval (500–1000)

3 entries

Odin

Norse

All-father of the Aesir, god of wisdom, poetry, runes, and battle. Hung himself nine days on Yggdrasil to gain knowledge of the runes.

Georg von Rosen, Odin the Wanderer, 1886. Illustration for the 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda. Public domain.

Thor

Norse

God of thunder, lightning, storms, and the protector of mankind. Wielder of Mjolnir.

Mårten Eskil Winge, Tor's Fight with the Giants, 1872, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Public domain.

Freyja

Norse

Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, and seidr (magic). Drives a chariot pulled by two cats.

Nils Blommér, Freyja sökande sin make (Freyja Seeking Her Husband), 1852, with her cat-drawn chariot and accompanying angels. Public domain.

High Medieval (1000–1300)

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1400s

3 entries

Tres Riches Heures: January

Painting · Limbourg Brothers

The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412-1416), the January calendar page shown here, is the supreme surviving Gothic illuminated manuscript.Crosses International Gothic × Painting × Christiani

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Primavera

Painting · Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli's Primavera (c. 1480) is one of the most studied paintings of the Italian Renaissance, an allegory of spring peopled by Venus, Mercury, the Three Graces, Flora and Zephyrus.Crosses Renaissa

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Birth of Venus

Tempera on canvas · Sandro Botticelli

Painted around 1485 for the Medici circle in Florence, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus shows the goddess Venus, the Greek Aphrodite, arriving on the shore of Cythera. Born of the sea foam, she stan

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

1500s

8 entries

Madonna with the Long Neck

Painting · Parmigianino

Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck (1535) is a defining work of Mannerism, its elongated proportions and cool elegance a deliberate departure from High Renaissance balance.Crosses Mannerism × P

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Bacchus and Ariadne

Painting · Titian

Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (1523) is a high point of the Venetian Renaissance, the god leaping from his chariot toward Ariadne in a blaze of ultramarine.Crosses Renaissance × Painting × Greek Mythol

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Medusa

Painting · Caravaggio

Caravaggio's Medusa (c. 1597), painted on a ceremonial parade shield, fixes the Gorgon at the instant of decapitation, the scream and serpents rendered with the violent realism that drove the whole Ba

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

1600s

10 entries

Et in Arcadia ego

Painting · Nicolas Poussin

Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1638) is the great meditation of Baroque classicism: shepherds in an idyllic Arcadia reading a tomb's inscription, death present even in paradise.Crosses Baroque × Pain

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

View of Toledo

Painting · El Greco

El Greco's View of Toledo (c. 1600) is one of the only pure landscapes of the Spanish Renaissance and a peak of Mannerism, the city seen under a storm-charged, almost visionary sky.Crosses Mannerism ×

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Painting · Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) is the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age tronies, a study in light, gaze, and the single luminous pearl.Crosses Baroque × Painting × 1600s. Reference.

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

1700s

6 entries

The Death of Socrates

Painting · Jacques-Louis David

David's The Death of Socrates (1787) is a manifesto of Neoclassicism: the philosopher reaches for the hemlock mid-argument, still teaching as he dies.Crosses Neoclassicism × Painting × Socrates, an ar

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

A Man Offering Gifts at the Altar of Venus

Stipple engraving · Francesco Bartolozzi

Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) was among the most celebrated engravers of the eighteenth century. Born in Florence, he settled in London in 1764, became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 176

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

1800s

1 entry

The Coronation of Napoleon

Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David

The painting is six metres by ten. It took David three years to finish. It is the most consequential single piece of imperial propaganda produced by any European regime between Napoleon and the First

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1810s

3 entries

The Abbey in the Oakwood

Oil on canvas · Caspar David Friedrich

Painted between 1809 and 1810, Caspar David Friedrich's The Abbey in the Oakwood is one of the starkest images of German Romanticism. Through a screen of leafless, broken oaks rises the ruined Gothic

Tristithea· Curator·6/20/2026

The Raft of the Medusa

Painting (oil on canvas) · Théodore Géricault

On the second of July 1816 the French frigate Méduse ran aground on the Bank of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania. The frigate had been sailing under a politically appointed captain, Hugues Duroy de

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1820s

2 entries

Scenes from the Massacres at Chios

Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix's decision in 1824 was to paint the aftermath, not the action. The Ottoman massacre of the Greek population of Chios had occurred two years earlier, in April 1822, during the Greek War of In

great0506· Artisan·5/16/2026

1830s

3 entries

Medea about to Kill her Children

Painting · Eugene Delacroix

Delacroix's Medea about to Kill her Children (1838) brings the Greek tragedy into full Romantic register, the sorceress half in shadow at the moment before the act.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Gre

Tristithea· Curator·6/27/2026

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Woodblock print (Japanese ukiyo-e) · Katsushika Hokusai

Created around 1831 as part of Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki Nami-ura) is the single most-recognized image of Japanese

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

1840s

1 entry

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre

Woodblock print · Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kuniyoshi's triptych (c. 1844) is one of the masterworks of ukiyo-e, the sorceress Takiyasha summoning a giant skeleton from a scroll of spells.Crosses Ukiyo-e × Japanese Mythology, bringing a non-Eur

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1850s

2 entries

The Gleaners

Painting · Jean-Francois Millet

Millet's The Gleaners (1857) is a landmark of Realism, three peasant women stooping over a harvested field given the gravity of a history painting.Crosses Realism × Painting × 1850s, opening the Reali

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The Great Day of His Wrath

Oil on canvas · John Martin

John Martin's The Great Day of His Wrath, painted around 1851 to 1853, depicts the end of the world from the Book of Revelation. Whole mountains are torn loose and hurled through a red-black sky; a ci

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1860s

3 entries

The Questioner of the Sphinx

Painting · Elihu Vedder

Vedder's The Questioner of the Sphinx (1863) is a key American Symbolist work, a lone figure pressing his ear to the lips of the half-buried Egyptian sphinx for an answer that will not come.Crosses Sy

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Oedipus and the Sphinx

Oil on canvas · Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau exhibited Oedipus and the Sphinx at the Paris Salon of 1864, and it made his reputation. The painting fixes the moment from Greek myth when Oedipus confronts the Sphinx outside Thebes,

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Don Quixote (Doré illustration)

Engraving · Gustave Doré

From the 1863 illustrated edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote, this Doré engraving shows Don Quixote in his library surrounded by chivalric romances, the books that have driven his imagination into the

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1870s

5 entries

Asgardsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin)

Painting · Peter Nicolai Arbo

Arbo's Asgardsreien (1872) is the great Romantic painting of the Norse Wild Hunt, Odin and the host of the dead riding across the night sky.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Norse Mythology, and connec

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The Dance Class

Painting · Edgar Degas

Degas' The Dance Class (c. 1874) is one of the central works of Impressionism, the off-centre composition and candid poses learned partly from photography and Japanese prints.Crosses Impressionism × P

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Impression, Sunrise

Painting · Claude Monet

Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872) gave Impressionism its name. The loose, light-first handling of the harbour at Le Havre was the break that reorganised European painting.Crosses Impressionism × Pain

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1880s

4 entries

The Starry Night

Painting · Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) is the defining work of Post-Impressionism, the night sky over Saint-Rémy turned into turbulence and light.Crosses Post-Impressionism × Painting × 1880s, opening the

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The Lady of Shalott

Painting (oil on canvas) · John William Waterhouse

Painted in 1888, Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott illustrates the climactic stanza of Tennyson's 1832 poem: the Lady, having looked directly at Lancelot in the mirror and broken the curse, leaves her

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1890s

6 entries

Goddess Saraswati

Painting · Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma's Goddess Saraswati (1896) is a cornerstone of modern Indian painting, fusing European academic technique with Hindu sacred iconography and putting the gods into mass-reproducible imag

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Bogatyrs

Painting · Viktor Vasnetsov

Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs (1898) is the defining image of Russian and Slavic folk-epic, the three heroes of the byliny rendered at monumental scale.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Slavic Mythology, a cros

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Hylas and the Nymphs

Oil on canvas · John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse painted Hylas and the Nymphs in 1896. The subject is Greek: Hylas, the young companion of Heracles on the voyage of the Argonauts, goes to fill a pitcher at a forest pool and i

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The Riders of the Sidhe

Painting · John Duncan

John Duncan's The Riders of the Sidhe (1911) is a central work of the Celtic Revival, the fairy host of Irish and Scottish myth riding in procession.Crosses Symbolism × Painting × Celtic Mythology, a

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The Cyclops

Oil on panel · Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon painted The Cyclops around 1914. The one-eyed giant Polyphemus rises from behind a hill of flowers, his single eye fixed on the small sleeping figure of the nymph Galatea below him. In Re

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Death and Life

Painting (oil on canvas) · Gustav Klimt

Klimt began Death and Life in 1908 and completed it around 1915. A robed figure of Death stands at the left side of the canvas, watching a sleeping cluster of human bodies, lovers, mothers, children,

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The Triumph of Death

Oil on panel · Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Triumph of Death around 1562. Across a scorched, panoramic landscape, an army of skeletons harvests the living without distinction of rank: a king's gold is tipped

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The Triumph of Death

Oil on panel · Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted The Triumph of Death around 1562. Across a scorched, panoramic landscape, an army of skeletons harvests the living without distinction of rank: a king's gold is tipped

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The Ambassadors

Painting (oil on oak) · Hans Holbein the Younger

Painted in 1533, Holbein's The Ambassadors depicts the French ambassador Jean de Dinteville and the bishop-diplomat Georges de Selve standing on either side of a two-tiered table loaded with the instr

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The Ambassadors

Painting (oil on oak) · Hans Holbein the Younger

Painted in 1533, Holbein's The Ambassadors depicts the French ambassador Jean de Dinteville and the bishop-diplomat Georges de Selve standing on either side of a two-tiered table loaded with the instr

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Melencolia I

Engraving · Albrecht Dürer

Engraved by Albrecht Dürer in 1514, Melencolia I is the most analyzed single print of the entire Northern Renaissance. A winged personification of Melancholy sits at the right, head propped on her han

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Melencolia I

Engraving · Albrecht Dürer

Engraved by Albrecht Dürer in 1514, Melencolia I is the most analyzed single print of the entire Northern Renaissance. A winged personification of Melancholy sits at the right, head propped on her han

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Portrait of Georg Gisze, Merchant of the Hanseatic League

Painting (oil on oak panel) · Hans Holbein the Younger

The painting is an inventory in oil. On the table in front of the merchant: a folded letter, addressed to him ("To the honourable Georg Gisze in London, in England, to my brother"), a glass vase of ca

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Portrait of Georg Gisze, Merchant of the Hanseatic League

Painting (oil on oak panel) · Hans Holbein the Younger

The painting is an inventory in oil. On the table in front of the merchant: a folded letter, addressed to him ("To the honourable Georg Gisze in London, in England, to my brother"), a glass vase of ca

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Triptych (oil on oak panels) · Hieronymus Bosch

Five centuries of writing have not produced a stable reading of this triptych, and the failure is significant. Most paintings yield to interpretation by the second generation of critics. Bosch's centr

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Triptych (oil on oak panels) · Hieronymus Bosch

Five centuries of writing have not produced a stable reading of this triptych, and the failure is significant. Most paintings yield to interpretation by the second generation of critics. Bosch's centr

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Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)

Sculpture · Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1625) is the defining Baroque sculpture, marble caught at the instant Daphne turns to laurel to escape the god.Crosses Baroque × Sculpture × Greek Mythology. Reference.

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Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)

Sculpture · Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1625) is the defining Baroque sculpture, marble caught at the instant Daphne turns to laurel to escape the god.Crosses Baroque × Sculpture × Greek Mythology. Reference.

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Judith Slaying Holofernes

Painting · Artemisia Gentileschi

Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) is the most unflinching Baroque treatment of the biblical scene, and a landmark work by one of the era's few professional women painters.Crosses Baroq

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Judith Slaying Holofernes

Painting · Artemisia Gentileschi

Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1620) is the most unflinching Baroque treatment of the biblical scene, and a landmark work by one of the era's few professional women painters.Crosses Baroq

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Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)

Painting · Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) gives the Roman myth its Baroque treatment: muscular, lit, and immediate. It sits in direct lineage with Goya's later, darker version already catalogued here.Cr

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Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)

Painting · Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) gives the Roman myth its Baroque treatment: muscular, lit, and immediate. It sits in direct lineage with Goya's later, darker version already catalogued here.Cr

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The Geographer

Painting (oil on canvas) · Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer painted only about thirty-five works in his entire career. Two of them, painted around 1668 and 1669, depict male scholars: The Astronomer (now at the Louvre) and The Geographer (now at the St

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The Geographer

Painting (oil on canvas) · Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer painted only about thirty-five works in his entire career. Two of them, painted around 1668 and 1669, depict male scholars: The Astronomer (now at the Louvre) and The Geographer (now at the St

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Portrait of Pope Innocent X

Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez

Innocent X did not want the portrait to make him look good. He wanted it to make him look right. Velázquez, who had arrived in Rome in 1649 for his second visit to Italy and stayed nearly two years, u

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Portrait of Pope Innocent X

Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez

Innocent X did not want the portrait to make him look good. He wanted it to make him look right. Velázquez, who had arrived in Rome in 1649 for his second visit to Italy and stayed nearly two years, u

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Las Meninas

Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez

The painting is built around an unanswered question, and the question is the painting's actual subject. Velázquez stands behind a large canvas at the left edge of the picture, brush in hand, looking o

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Las Meninas

Painting (oil on canvas) · Diego Velázquez

The painting is built around an unanswered question, and the question is the painting's actual subject. Velázquez stands behind a large canvas at the left edge of the picture, brush in hand, looking o

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Paradise Lost

Sacred Text · John Milton

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the bl

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Paradise Lost

Sacred Text · John Milton

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the bl

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Louis XIV in Coronation Robes

Painting (oil on canvas) · Hyacinthe Rigaud

Painted in 1701, Rigaud's official portrait of Louis XIV is the canonical image of European absolute monarchy at its rhetorical peak. Louis is dressed in the regalia of the coronation ceremony: the bl

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Louis XIV in Coronation Robes

Painting (oil on canvas) · Hyacinthe Rigaud

Painted in 1701, Rigaud's official portrait of Louis XIV is the canonical image of European absolute monarchy at its rhetorical peak. Louis is dressed in the regalia of the coronation ceremony: the bl

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Etching (aquatint) · Francisco Goya

Plate 43 of Goya's Los Caprichos, etched between 1797 and 1799 and published in 1799. A man, a self-portrait of Goya as the engraver, slumps asleep across a writing desk, surrounded by owls, bats, and

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Etching (aquatint) · Francisco Goya

Plate 43 of Goya's Los Caprichos, etched between 1797 and 1799 and published in 1799. A man, a self-portrait of Goya as the engraver, slumps asleep across a writing desk, surrounded by owls, bats, and

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The Nightmare

Painting (oil on canvas) · Henry Fuseli

Painted in 1781, Fuseli's The Nightmare is the founding image of Gothic-Romantic visualization of dream and the unconscious. A young woman lies sleeping across a bed, her body arched backwards in unre

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The Nightmare

Painting (oil on canvas) · Henry Fuseli

Painted in 1781, Fuseli's The Nightmare is the founding image of Gothic-Romantic visualization of dream and the unconscious. A young woman lies sleeping across a bed, her body arched backwards in unre

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The Death of Marat

Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David

Jean-Paul Marat was murdered on the thirteenth of July 1793 by Charlotte Corday, a young woman from Caen who had travelled to Paris specifically to kill him. He suffered from a severe and disfiguring

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The Death of Marat

Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David

Jean-Paul Marat was murdered on the thirteenth of July 1793 by Charlotte Corday, a young woman from Caen who had travelled to Paris specifically to kill him. He suffered from a severe and disfiguring

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Painting (oil on canvas) · Caspar David Friedrich

Friedrich's painting works by what he denies the viewer. The figure's face is turned away. The valley is consumed in fog. The mountain ridge in the middle distance breaks the surface only enough to co

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Painting (oil on canvas) · Caspar David Friedrich

Friedrich's painting works by what he denies the viewer. The figure's face is turned away. The valley is consumed in fog. The mountain ridge in the middle distance breaks the surface only enough to co

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Saturn Devouring His Son

Mural transferred to canvas · Francisco Goya

Goya painted Saturn on the wall of his own kitchen at sixty-eight, deaf for three decades, after surviving three regimes that wanted him dead. The reading of the Black Paintings as private therapy is

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Saturn Devouring His Son

Mural transferred to canvas · Francisco Goya

Goya painted Saturn on the wall of his own kitchen at sixty-eight, deaf for three decades, after surviving three regimes that wanted him dead. The reading of the Black Paintings as private therapy is

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Liberty Leading the People

Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix did not fight on the barricades of the July Revolution. He wrote to his brother that if he could not fight for his country he would at least paint for it. The painting that resulted is the c

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Liberty Leading the People

Painting (oil on canvas) · Eugène Delacroix

Delacroix did not fight on the barricades of the July Revolution. He wrote to his brother that if he could not fight for his country he would at least paint for it. The painting that resulted is the c

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Pornokratès

Etching (heliogravure) · Félicien Rops

Completed in 1878, Pornokratès, also titled Lady with Pig, is the canonical work of Belgian decadence and Félicien Rops's most reproduced image. A nude woman walks blindfolded across a stone parapet,

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

Pornokratès

Etching (heliogravure) · Félicien Rops

Completed in 1878, Pornokratès, also titled Lady with Pig, is the canonical work of Belgian decadence and Félicien Rops's most reproduced image. A nude woman walks blindfolded across a stone parapet,

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The Apparition

Watercolor · Gustave Moreau

Completed in 1876, Moreau's The Apparition is the central image of French Haute Symbolism and the most famous of the artist's many Salomé works. Salomé stands centre, jeweled and tense, while the dise

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The Apparition

Watercolor · Gustave Moreau

Completed in 1876, Moreau's The Apparition is the central image of French Haute Symbolism and the most famous of the artist's many Salomé works. Salomé stands centre, jeweled and tense, while the dise

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Hope

Painting (oil on canvas) · George Frederic Watts

Completed in 1886, Watts's Hope is the great late-Victorian allegory and one of the most reproduced images of the nineteenth century. A blindfolded woman sits crouched on a globe, bent over a lyre wit

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Hope

Painting (oil on canvas) · George Frederic Watts

Completed in 1886, Watts's Hope is the great late-Victorian allegory and one of the most reproduced images of the nineteenth century. A blindfolded woman sits crouched on a globe, bent over a lyre wit

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The Isle of the Dead

Painting (oil on canvas) · Arnold Böcklin

Böcklin painted five versions of this image between 1880 and 1886. The repetition is the first thing to notice. He did not work on the picture, sell it, and move on; he made it again, then again, then

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The Isle of the Dead

Painting (oil on canvas) · Arnold Böcklin

Böcklin painted five versions of this image between 1880 and 1886. The repetition is the first thing to notice. He did not work on the picture, sell it, and move on; he made it again, then again, then

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The Sin

Oil on canvas · Franz von Stuck

Franz von Stuck's Die Sünde (The Sin), first shown in Munich in 1893, is among the defining images of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. A nude woman emerges from near-black shadow, a massive serpent coiled aro

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The Sin

Oil on canvas · Franz von Stuck

Franz von Stuck's Die Sünde (The Sin), first shown in Munich in 1893, is among the defining images of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. A nude woman emerges from near-black shadow, a massive serpent coiled aro

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The Scream

Painting (oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard) · Edvard Munch

Painted in 1893, The Scream is the defining image of European proto-expressionism and one of the most reproduced artifacts in cultural history. A figure on a bridge holds its head and emits a wordless

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The Scream

Painting (oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard) · Edvard Munch

Painted in 1893, The Scream is the defining image of European proto-expressionism and one of the most reproduced artifacts in cultural history. A figure on a bridge holds its head and emits a wordless

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026

I Lock My Door Upon Myself

Painting (oil on canvas) · Fernand Khnopff

Painted in 1891, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the defining canvas of Belgian Symbolism and one of the foundational images of late nineteenth-century European decadence. The title is borrowed verbatim

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I Lock My Door Upon Myself

Painting (oil on canvas) · Fernand Khnopff

Painted in 1891, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the defining canvas of Belgian Symbolism and one of the foundational images of late nineteenth-century European decadence. The title is borrowed verbatim

Tristithea· Curator·5/28/2026