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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)

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

MacGregor plaque

sculpture

The Moorish Archer

engraving
by Cornelis Visscher (1670)
archer bow and arrow

Lely Venus

statue
by Doidalsa

Statue of A'a from Rurutu

sculpture
(18th century)

Ribchester Helmet

galea / sculpture

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

archaeological artifact / inscription / sculpture
by Shalmaneser III

Satala Aphrodite

statue
(2nd 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

Crucifixion

drawing
by Michelangelo (1545)
Jesus Christ man

Nectanebo I in grovacca

statue
(-370)
Nectanebo I

Portrait of a Young Woman

drawing
by Rogier van der Weyden (1430s)
woman headscarf

The Golden Cell

painting
by Odilon Redon (1892)
human head

Chatsworth Head

sculpture
by anonymous (460s)
Apollo

Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa

sarcophagus / statue
(150s)
woman headscarf half reclining diadem

Procession of the Panathenaic festival

sculpture
(445)
Panathenaic Games thymiaterion oenochoe phiale

Rhinoceros (Dürer)

print / work of art / woodcut print
by Albrecht Dürer (1515)
rhinoceros

Standard of Ur Antiguo

archaeological artifact / mosaic
by anonymous (-2500)

Portrait of the Meiji Emperor

print
by Toyohara Chikanobu (1887)
Meiji

Tejaprabhā Buddha and the Five Planets

painting
(897)

Backwater, Weymouth

painting
by Matilda Heming (1840s)

Farnese Diadumenos

sculpture
(2nd century)