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Bone figure of a woman, c. 3700–3500, From the collection of: British Museum

Naked woman with big eyes made from lapis lazuli.

Animal figurine (bull-calf), Unknown, 2800 BCE - 2700 BCE, From the collection of: Pergamonmuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Small bull calf sculpture made with clay and lapis lazuli.

Queen's Lyre, -2600/-2600, From the collection of: British Museum

One of the oldest surviving string instruments from Ur in ancient Mesopotamia.

Attic amphora with black figures, Attributed to the painter of Saint Audries, -0600/-0500, From the collection of: Mev, Museu d'Art Medieval

Juno Sospita adorns a roof, Unknown, -500, From the collection of: Altes Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Standing Krishna, Unknown, 1600 AD - 1700 AD, From the collection of: National Museum - New Delhi

Head of Buddha, 0200, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian, 1520-3, From the collection of: The National Gallery, London

One of the exquisite painting by Titian, a leading artist of the Italian Renaissance. Bacchus, god of wine emerges from the landscape with his followers from the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on sight, he leaps from his chariot, drawn by two chariots, towards her. Ariadne had been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance. The picture shows her initial fear of Bacchus, but he raised her to heaven and turned her into a constellation, represented by the stars above her head.

Angel defeating a Demon, Giovanbattista Ponchino, c. 1555, From the collection of: Doge's Palace

(Main View), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (after?), undated, From the collection of: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

The painting is about the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus, supposedly done by Bruegel or his successor. As the story goes, Icarus, son of Daedalus, took flight from imprisonment wearing the fragile wings his father had mad for him. Heedless of his father's warnings, Icarus flew too close to the burning sun, which then melted his wings and Icarus then hurtled to the sea and to his death. The irony of the death of Icarus is that his death goes unnoticed- as you can you see in the bottom right, a mere splash in the sea.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, From the collection of: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

The Fall of the Titans, Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1588-1590, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children, Abraham Bloemaert, 1591, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

An intense painting by Reinoso-a baroque painter from Portugal in which a sainted is tempted by demons, painted with very warm colors giving the appearance as if everything fading and emerging into the back.

The Feast of Venus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636/1637, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Joos van Craesbeeck, 1650, From the collection of: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Roses, Convolvulus, Poppies, and Other Flowers in an Urn on a Stone Ledge, Rachel Ruysch, ca. 1680s - ca. 1680s, From the collection of: National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Ricci, Sebastiano, c. 1720, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Coffee pot, from the "Borromeo tea and coffee set", 1736 - 1740, From the collection of: Museo Poldi Pezzoli

A Rococco painting characterized curved lines, pastel colors, elegance, and elaborate ornamentation in which a mischiveous couple involving a man and a girl is being blindfolded to play a game.

Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) with her Two Eldest Sons, Johan Zoffany, 1765, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

The Progress of Love: The Meeting, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1771 - 1773, From the collection of: The Frick Collection

The Banquet of Cleopatra, Gerard Hoet, late 17th–early 18th century, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

View of Warsaw from the Terrace of the Royal Castle, Bernardo Bellotto called Canaletto, 1773, From the collection of: The National Museum in Warsaw

Portrait of the Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Johann Zoffany, c. 1778, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Jacques-Louis David, 1781, From the collection of: The Wilanów Palace Museum

The Bather, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1808, From the collection of: Harvard Art Museums

A Neo-Classical piece by Ingres characterized by severe and unemotional form of the art hearkening back to the grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome. The painting.

Elisa Bonaparte with her daughter Napoleona Baciocchi, François Gérard, 1810/1810, From the collection of: Museo Napoleonico

Odalisque with a Slave, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1839 - 1840, From the collection of: Harvard Art Museums

Dante and Virgile, William Bouguereau, 1850, From the collection of: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Victorian Bouquet, Severin Roesen, c. 1850 - 1855, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A still life painting of vibrant morning glories, tulips, roses, irises and other flowers arranged together with fruits, a wine glass and bird's nest standing out in an otherwise dark background.

Ophelia, Sir John Everett Millais, Around 1851, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Another great Pre-Raphaelite paintings depicting Ophelia drowning while picking flowers from the famous play Hamlet.

Antoine-Louis Barye, circa 1860, this cast (Barbédienne) later, From the collection of: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Italy Grateful to France, Vincenzo Vela, 1861 - 1862, From the collection of: Museo Vincenzo Vela

The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine), James McNeill Whistler, 1863-1865, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1875, From the collection of: Detroit Institute of Arts

Portrait of Nini Lopez, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876, From the collection of: MuMa - Musée d'art moderne André Malraux

Sleeping Diana Watched by Two Fauns, Arnold Böcklin, 1877/85, From the collection of: Kunstpalast

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, Auguste Renoir, 1876, From the collection of: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

An in which impressionist piece by Renoir in which a dance event is depicted by light brush strokes in which everything blurs together with light artificial and and natural light colors while making the painting look as if its mid motion.

Dancer in Her Dressing Room, Edgar Degas (French, b.1834, d.1917), Circa 1879, From the collection of: Cincinnati Art Museum

The Minotaur, George Frederic Watts, 1885, From the collection of: Tate Britain

The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, 1888, From the collection of: Tate Britain

A painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter- John William Waterhouse. It is painted from a scene from Alfred, a poem from TS Elliot.

Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro, 1889, From the collection of: Sakıp Sabancı Museum

At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864 - 1901, 1890, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes), Adolph Menzel, 1872 - 1875, From the collection of: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Demon (sitting), Mikhail Vrubel, 1890, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Considered to be a painting from the Art Nouveau art movement characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

The mysterious wedding in Pistoia., Kristian Zahrtmann, 1894, From the collection of: Bornholms Kunstmuseum

Quai a la Seinie, Paris, au Clair de Lune, Frank Boggs, 1898, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Victorian Chair, Childe Hassam, 1906, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Plus de Vin, Carlos Reis, 1932, From the collection of: Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation

Spring Garden, Shoen Uemura, 1935, From the collection of: Shimada City Museum

The Temptation of St. Anthony, Henri Fantin-Latour, Undated, From the collection of: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

The Tortoise Trainer, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1906, From the collection of: Pera Museum

Elderly man in traditional ottoman empire clothing holding a ney flute to "train" the tortoises.

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Pera Museum

Museo Poldi Pezzoli

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Doge's Palace

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Mev, Museu d'Art Medieval

MuMa - Musée d'art moderne André Malraux

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Shimada City Museum

The National Gallery, London

Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin