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Greek Women of Souli Running to Their Death is an oil painting created by female French painter Constance Blanchard. Blanchard was born in Paris and she was active in the early part of the 19th century between 1820 and 1840. She created a painting entitled Jesus Christ in 1822 but also painted the full-length Portrait of Mademoiselle G ...
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos[ b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC. It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre ...
Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in). Uffizi, Florence. Detail: the face of Venus. The Birth of Venus ( Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth ...
Jean-Léon Gérôme. Jean-Léon Gérôme ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." [ 1]
Jacques-Louis David ( French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened ...
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( French: La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi) is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. This painting was inspired by the Third Siege of Missolonghi by the Ottoman forces in 1826, during which many people of the city after the ...
Helen. Helen ( Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized : Helénē[ a] ), also known as Helen of Troy, [ 2][ 3] Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, [ 4] and in Latin as Helena, [ 5] was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda or Nemesis, and ...
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ( French: [lə deʒœne syʁ lɛʁb, -ʒøn-]; The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain ( The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet created in 1862 and 1863. It depicts a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men ...
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