“Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth” by J. M. W. Turner
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“The Fall of Icarus” in Art
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Catherine of Aragon by Joannes Corvus
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The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell
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“Kiepenkerl” by Jeff Koons
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“Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Prehistoric Stone Hand Axe
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Ram Khamhaeng Inscription
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Tomb of Bernabò Visconti
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“Neptune and Triton” by Bernini
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Mummy of Katebet
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“The Courtyard of a House in Delft” by Pieter de Hooch
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Tomb of Napoleon
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“Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White” by John Singer Sargent
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“The Scream” by Edvard Munch
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“George Washington” by Horatio Greenough
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“The Boating Party” by Mary Cassatt
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The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) by Claude Monet (MET)
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
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“Grande Odalisque” by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Sala Delle Statue, Vatican
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“At the Moulin Rouge” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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“Venus at her Mirror” by Diego Velázquez
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“The Battle of Anghiari” by Leonardo Da Vinci
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“Christ among the Doctors” by Paolo Veronese
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“The Burghers of Calais” by Auguste Rodin
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“The Lacemaker” by Johannes Vermeer
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Selam (Australopithecus)
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The Artist in their Studio
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