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instance of: sculpture (15) | drawing (12) | painting (11) | statue (8) | engraving (5) | print (4) | mosaic (2) | sarcophagus (1) | shield (1) | icon (1) | archaeological artifact (1) | work of art (1) | carton (1) | inscription (1) | mythological serpent (1) | etching (1) | woodcut print (1) | copper engraving (1)

commissioned by: Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1)

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

genre: portrait (6) | landscape art (5) | religious art (5) | nude (3) | religious painting (2) | mythological painting (2) | floral painting (2) | mythological sculpture (2) | 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 (8) | 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) | Gu Kaizhi (1) | Cornelis Visscher (1) | Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (1) | Frans van Mieris the Elder (1)

depicts: man (9) | woman (8) | Virgin Mary (4) | nudity (3) | Apollo (3) | Child Jesus (3) | lion (2) | Jesus Christ (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 (6) | oil paint (6) | bronze (3) | granite (3) | ink (3) | wood (2) | terracotta (2) | vellum (2) | silverpoint (2) | black chalk (2) | watercolor paint (2) | gold (1) | conch (1) | ivory (1) | hematite (1) | beeswax (1) | turquoise (1)

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

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

Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo

statue
Apollo

Tutankhamon offerente

statue
(-1325)
Tutankhamon

Chatsworth Apollo

sculpture / hypothetical artwork
by anonymous (-460s)

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

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)

Nativity

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

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

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

Plant study with butterflies

painting / drawing
by Maria Sibylla Merian (1703)
flower butterfly caterpillar Costus arabicus pupa Telchin licus

Admonitions Scroll

painting
by Gu Kaizhi (1st millennium)

Pediments of the Parthenon

sculpture
by Phidias (440)

Portrait of Alexander the Great

sculpture
by anonymous (0th century)
Alexander the Great

Isabella Brant

drawing
by Peter Paul Rubens (1621)
Isabella Brant woman gaze towards the viewer

The Moorish Archer

engraving
by Cornelis Visscher (1670)
archer bow and arrow

Statue of A'a from Rurutu

sculpture
(18th century)

Adam and Eve

copper engraving
by Albrecht Dürer (1504)
Adam Eve tree of the knowledge of good and evil nudity pubic hair fig leaf contrapposto snake serpent in the Bible couple

Bronze Head from Ife

sculpture
by anonymous (14th century)
Olokun Ooni of Ife

Le maréchal de campagne

engraving
by Pierre-Jacques Duret (1762)
man house