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Dressed in fine silk and holding a lady's fan on her delicate lap, the languidly reclining female figure in Dewing's exquisite work stares dreamily into a future to which the viewer is not invited. Known for his moody tonalist paintings with roots in...

In this self portrait, a very self-satisfied Rubens and his first wife, Isabella Brant, rest in a bower of honeysuckle, traditional symbols of love and marriage carefully placed about them. A prolific Flemish Baroque painter, Rubens' extravagant style...

Shown at her moment of unveiling, the bride, surrounded by bridesmaids, transfixes with the power of her beauty. The bride's Japanese dress and Peruvian headdress, as well as the ethnic origins of her bridesmaids, leave some to speculate that Rossetti is...

Painted specifically to illustrate the costumes and manners of fashionable 18th century France, this colorful composition painted across a high-backed velvet settee in a formal sitting room, finds a lover leaning in to declare his eternal love to a...

Phaon was said to be so beautiful that even the Greek poetess Sappho fell in love with him. Count Nikolai Yusupov commissioned this fine work complete with kneeling Cupid and a scroll of verses to love's enchantment. French artist David avoids narrative...

The sorrowful eyes of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, fortell his sad departure from his love, the beautiful nymph Eucharis. In true Neoclassical style, French artist David used a clarity of line and form sated with rich reds and blues to further engage...

In the genre of the sacra conversazione, or sacred conversation, the Holy Mother and Child convey timeless truths with their simple presence as Mary Magdalene and a young John the Baptist look on. An accomplished secular and sacred artist who belonged to...

Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of Leonardo's employer, Lodovico Sforza, was a 16-year-old known for her beauty, scholarship and poetry. One of only four female portraits by da Vinci and the one heralded as the first truly modern portrait, this work...

As in the poem by John Keats that inspired this romantic work, a knight is enchanted - and then left without mercy - by a beautiful young maiden. Waterhouse, one of the most popular of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, captures the longing gaze, the dreamlike...

The beautiful and powerful sorceress Circe, after already transforming his men into swine-like beasts, offers the cup of seduction to Ulysses. Beguilingly swathed in gauzy blue gossamer, Waterhouse's enchantress is a creature of splendor who is further...

The beautiful and powerful sorceress Circe, after already transforming his men into swine-like beasts, offers the cup of seduction to Ulysses. Beguilingly swathed in gauzy blue gossamer, Waterhouse's enchantress is a creature of splendor who is further...

Waking from sleep amidst the olive trees to meet the face of Love, the beautiful maiden meets grace, whether the viewer interprets it as a divine annunciation or the timeless capture of the heart. Stanhope's work, though not as well known today as that...