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instance of: sculpture (26) | painting (13) | drawing (12) | statue (11) | engraving (5) | print (4) | mosaic (3) | archaeological artifact (2) | inscription (2) | sarcophagus (1) | shield (1) | icon (1) | work of art (1) | galea (1) | carton (1) | mythological serpent (1) | etching (1) | woodcut print (1)

commissioned by: Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1)

movement: Italian Renaissance (4) | Hellenistic sculpture (2) | German Renaissance (2) | Symbolism (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | archaic sculpture (1) | Etruscan art (1) | Yoruba art (1)

genre: religious art (7) | portrait (6) | landscape art (5) | nude (3) | religious painting (2) | mythological painting (2) | floral painting (2) | mythological sculpture (2) | statue (1) | self-portrait (1) | kouros (1) | genre art (1) | figurative art (1) | animal sculpture (1) | animal art (1) | religious object (1)

named after: Ur (1) | Sydney Burney (1)

based on: Book of Genesis (1) | New Testament (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Triumph of Titus and Vespasian (1) | A Farrier shoeing a Piebald Horse (1) | Landscape with a Rock Arch (1) | Landscape with Travellers and Bathers (1)

artist: anonymous (9) | Albrecht Dürer (3) | Michelangelo (3) | Leonardo da Vinci (2) | Rembrandt (2) | William Blake (2) | Maria Sibylla Merian (2) | Margaret Sarah Carpenter (2) | Peter Paul Rubens (1) | Rogier van der Weyden (1) | Odilon Redon (1) | Phidias (1) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1) | Polykleitos the Elder (1) | Shalmaneser III (1) | Gu Kaizhi (1) | Cornelis Visscher (1) | Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (1)

depicts: man (10) | woman (8) | Virgin Mary (4) | Jesus Christ (3) | nudity (3) | Apollo (3) | Child Jesus (3) | lion (2) | boy (2) | caterpillar (2) | headscarf (2) | half reclining (2) | butterfly (2) | house cat (1) | flower (1) | horse (1) | cattle (1) | Capsicum annuum (1)

material used: paper (17) | marble (7) | bronze (6) | granite (6) | oil paint (6) | ink (3) | wood (2) | limestone (2) | terracotta (2) | ivory (2) | vellum (2) | silverpoint (2) | black chalk (2) | watercolor paint (2) | gold (1) | Carrara marble (1) | basalt (1) | conch (1)

collection: Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Rijksmuseum (2) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (2) | Princeton University Art Museum (2) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Rembrandt House Museum (1) | Royal Library of Belgium (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Kupferstich-Kabinett (1) | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (1) | Art Gallery of Ontario (1) | Wallraf–Richartz Museum (1) | Royal Collection (1) | The Morgan Library & Museum (1)

part of: Old Babylonian Empire (1) | Parthenon Frieze (1) | Isin-Larsa period (1) | Chatsworth Apollo (1)

country of origin: Tang Empire (2)

exhibition history: Meiji, Splendeurs du Japon impérial (1868-1912) (1) | Black is beautiful: Rubens tot Dumas (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (2)

fabrication method: bas-relief (2) | woodcut technique (1) | relief sculpture (1) | trois crayons (1)

time period: Ancient Egypt (1)

Elijah rescuing Prince Nur ad-Dahr from drowning in a river

painting
by Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (1570s)
man boy river Elijah

Prudhoe Lions

sculpture
(-1370)
lion

Two drumming Moors on mules

drawing
by Rembrandt (1638)

The Whore of Babylon

painting
by William Blake (1809)

Statue of Idrimi

sculpture / inscription
(-1th millennium)

Hinton St Mary Mosaic

mosaic

Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III

sculpture

Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo

statue
Apollo

Tutankhamon offerente

statue
(-1325)
Tutankhamon

Chatsworth Apollo

sculpture / hypothetical artwork
by anonymous (-460s)

Arundel Head

sculpture

Grosvenor House, No. 105

engraving
(1820)
man swimming cattle

Head of a Black Woman

drawing
by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1660)
woman

Townley Venus

sculpture

Self-portrait

painting
by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1812)
woman Margaret Sarah Carpenter

Study for the Madonna of the Cat

design drawing
by Leonardo da Vinci (15th century)
Virgin Mary Child Jesus house cat

Bust of a Warrior

drawing
by Leonardo da Vinci (1475)
man condottiero body armor helmet

Stafford Gallery No. 43

engraving
(1815)
man mule natural arch

Nestorian painting of Jesus Christ

painting
by anonymous (10th century)
Jesus Christ

Apollo of Cyrene

sculpture
(2nd century)
Apollo

Lion of Knidos

statue
lion

Strangford Apollo

sculpture
(500s)
man nudity standing

Westmacott athlete

statue
by Polykleitos the Elder (450s)

Battersea Shield

sculpture / shield
(4th century)

Asclepius of Milos

sculpture

Nativity

print
by Albrecht Dürer (1504)
man woman Holy Family manger well Nativity of Jesus

Younger Memnon

statue
Ramesses II nemes man

Sphinx of Taharqo

sculpture

Plant study with peppers

painting / drawing
by Maria Sibylla Merian (1703)
bell pepper butterfly caterpillar chrysalis Capsicum annuum

The Fall of Phaeton

drawing
by Michelangelo (1533)
Jupiter sitting eagle lightning Phaethon falling horse man nudity horse-drawn vehicle quadriga traffic collision Heliades Aegiale Phaethusa Lampetia poplar woman Cycnus swan Eridanos half reclining

Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

painting / icon
by anonymous (1375s)
Virgin Mary Child Jesus

Epifania

drawing / carton
by Michelangelo (1550)
Virgin Mary Joseph John the Baptist Child Jesus boy woman

The Triumph of Titus and Vespasian; the men in a horse-drawn chariot, an angel with crowns above them, a triumphal arch at right and landscape beyond

drawing
by Diana Scultori (1600s)
Titus Vespasian chariot triumphal arch angel

Faraone arcaico in avorio

statue
(-29st century)
pharaoh

Statue of Horemheb and Amenia

sculpture

Burney Relief

sculpture

View into the picture gallery of the Archduke Leopold

engraving
by Franciscus van der Steen (1660)
Stallburg

Jacob's Ladder

painting
by William Blake (1805)

Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III

statue
(-13th century)
Amenhotep III

Portrait of Henrietta Shuckburgh

drawing
by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1820)

[no title]

painting
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1859)

Figure of Nandi

sculpture
by anonymous (16th century)
Nandi bull

The Three Crosses

etching / print
by Rembrandt (1653)
Jesus Christ crucifixion of Jesus Virgin Mary

Statues of Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa

sculpture

Tolomeo I in basalto

sculpture