Artist: Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Painting,Drawing
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Biography:
Giuseppe Maria Crespi was trained in the traditional and classical style, but rejected it to develop his own dramatic techniques that used tenets of humanism and emphasized chiaroscuro. The Bolognese painters Ludovico Carracci and Guernico also impacted his work. Crespi traveled to Venice in 1690 and then to Parma where he admired the frescoes of Correggio. He favored religious and historical subjects painted with thick paint and strong light and dark contrasts. Crespi opened a school in Bologna in 1700 were he influenced his many Venetian students. He went blind at the end of his life.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Girl with a cat n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Self-Portrait c. 1712 oil on canvas University of Kentucky Art Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Musicians 1710-1715 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Saint Paul
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Tarquin and Lucretia c. 1695-1700 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Peasants with Donkeys 1710-1715 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Jesuit Mission c. 1710 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Jupiter Among the Corybantes c. 1730 oil on copper Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Saint Jerome in the Desert 1710-1720 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - The Young John the Baptist c. 1715 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Cupids Disarming Sleeping Nymphs c. 1690-1705 oil on copper National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian (Bolognese), 1665-1747 Chancellor Florius Senesius Oil on canvas 115.5 x 95.9
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Sig.ri amirativi (Amazed Gentlemen), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Non ho mai visto il piu* bello (I Have Never Seen Anyone More Handsome) , from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Giocatori smafaroni (Gamesters), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Conversacione considerabile (A Lot of Talking), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Bernard Tolomei and the Plague in Siena
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Ballarina gentilissima ( Most Noble Ballerina), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Oche belle persÛne (Look at the Handsome One), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Sonatori sconcertati (Discordant Musicians), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Accademici scontornati (Drawing Academy for the Untalented), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Uberiaconi fumanti (Totally Drunk[not a literal translation]), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Zuog dal cacciator (Game of the Hunter) 1699
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian (Bolognese), 1665-1747 Woman Playing a Lute about 1700-05 Oil on canvas
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Questo que tiene la canella in mano Ë il famoso Gianin da Capugnano (The One Holding the Little Cane [i.e. Chalk Holder} in His Hand is the Famous Gianin from Capugnano), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved b
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Frontispiece of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna Engraving
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carrac
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracc
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carrac
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Aeneas and his Companions Combat the Harpies, plate 10 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Car
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Polyphemus pursuing Aeneas' Fleet, plate12 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Troy, plate 6 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in th
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Aeneas departs for the Battle, plate 5 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the Pal
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Greeks dragging Cassandra out of the Temple, plate 3 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Trojans Sacrifice Bulls to Neptune, plate 9 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci i
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Aeneas Pours Wine into the Sea in Gratitude for his Arrival in Italy, plate 11 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Ann
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Venus leading Aeneas out of the Flames, plate 4 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci i
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Shadow of Creusa Appears to Aeneas, plate 7 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Aeneas offers a Sacrifice to Apollo, plate 8 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in th
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Trojans Taking Sinon Prisoner, plate 1 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli The Wooden Horse entering Troy, plate 2 of L'Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the Pa
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R. Persichini Che muoja in braccia a Cristo, ed a Maria/ Impetrate o Giuseppe all* alma mia (That I should die in Christ*s arms, and Mary and Joseph pray for my soul) Engraving 17th century
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Giuseppe Angeli Stations of the Cross - X Engraving 1778
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Bathsheba at Her Bath Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (Italian, Roman, 1654-1727)Oil on canvas; 53 1/2 x
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Francesco (Felice) Polanzani Old Woman Warming Her Hands at a Brazier, after Giuseppe Nogari Engraving (and etching?) 18th century
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Giacomo Maria Giovannini St. Sebastian, after Lodovico Carracci Engraving 17 - 18th century
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Giuseppe Cadenasso Eucalypti oil on burlap 19th - 20th century
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Giuseppe Santomaso La Finestra (The Window) color lithograph from four stones 1952
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Daniel Crespi Jesucristo Difunto En Brazos De Su Sanit Mary...(Christ dead in the arms of his mother)... second plate in thebook...El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]) Lithograph 16th - 1
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Giuseppe Piamontini Jupiter and Ganymede bronze early 18th century
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Artist: after Giuseppe Chiari and San Micheles Workshop Title: St. Joseph and the Christ Child
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Giuseppe Rosaspina Thetis Engraving circa 1805
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Artist: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena Title: Decorative Drawing Date: 18th century Medium: pen and ink with
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Artist: Giuseppe Antonio Petrini Title: Study of Two Figures Date: 18th century Medium: red and
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Giuseppe Lante The Descent from the Cross-Stazione XIII from La Via Crucis Etching with engraving 1778
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Studies of Figures: Apotheosis
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Jacob Matharu Portrait of Cavalier Giuseppe Cesare d'Arpino, (after Everard Quirinus) engraving 1606
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Ashford Brothers and Company Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807- 1882) albumen print 19th century
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Giuseppe Baroni Allegorical Figure of a Woman engraving early 18th century
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Domenico Maria Bonavera A Christian Martyr Saint, after Domenico Maria Canuti Etching and engraving 17th century
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Giuseppe Acquaroni Interior of St. Peter's Cathedral engraving 1826
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A Cat Stealing Fish Giuseppe Recco (Italian, Neapolitan, 1634-1695)Oil on canvas; 38 x 50 1/2
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Giuseppe Acquaroni Interior of St. Peter's Cathedral engraving 1826
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Giuseppe Zocchi Simplicity Engraving 1776
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Giuseppe Camerata II A Gentlemen and his Servants Engraving 18th century
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Giuseppe Caletti (Il Cremonese) Samson and Delilah Etching with some engraving (with painted margin) 17th century
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Giuseppe Ninci St. Peter's, Rome albumen print 19th century
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Giuseppe Pera View of Florence from the Pitti Palace in the Boboli Gardens Aquatint 1826
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Giuseppe Diamantini Allegory of the Republic of Venice with Lion and Unicorn Etching 17th - 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi A Friar with Hood Etching 18th century
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Giuseppe Filippo Liberati Marchi Portrait of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith Mezzotint 1770
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Giuseppe Zocchi Eneas (?), after Parmigianino Etching 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi Head of a Man in a Hat, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi Portriat of P. Caesar Calinus Brixianus Engraving 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi An Italian Woman with Rosary Etching 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi A Boy's Head, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi Portrait of the Monk F. Daniel Concina Ord. Praed. Engraving 18th century
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Bernardino Giuseppe Bison Seated Woman graphite and wash on light blue wove paper 18th - 19th century
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Canaletto - View of the Grand Canal: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo early 1730's oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino) Daniel in the Lion's Den Black chalk on laid paper 17th century
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Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino) Man with a Spade Black, red and white chalks and graphite on tan laid paper 1630
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Giuseppe Santini Landscape with Trees, a Well, and a Ruined Castle pen and brown ink over black chalk underdrawing on cream laid paper 17th century
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Giuseppe Porta (Salviati) The Disciples of Astronomy and the Mathematics of Chance, frontispiece from Le sorti, Venice: 1540 Woodcut 16th century
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Giuseppe Zocchi Veduta del Ponte a Sta. Trinita, Florence Colored Etching -Engraving 18th century
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Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino) Standing Female Nude Red and black chalks on laid paper 17th century
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Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428-1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, 1456-1495), probably 1470 Hans Memling
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Giuseppe Perraccini (Il Mirandolese) Cavalry Engagement Pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper mounted to a heavier sheet early 18th century
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Edward J. Steichen - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1901 gum platinum print The Royal Photographic Society American
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Giuseppe Vasi Seminario Romano, Rome etching 18th century
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Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen - Anna Maria van Schurman 1657 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Dutch
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Charles Peale Polk - Anna Maria Cumpston c. 1790 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino) Recto:Venus~Verso: Venus (front view) Black chalk on laid paper 17th century
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Ambrogio de Predis - Bianca Maria Sforza c. 1493 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli Portrait of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, frontispiece from his Varie Opere Prospettiva Etching 1707
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Hesiquio Iriarte Sta. Maria de Toscanella/ en los Estados Pontificios (Sta. Maria of Toscanella in the Papal States) Color lithograph 19th - 20th century

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Fondazione Prada: Foujita. A Japanese Artist
The exhibition, designed by Pierluigi Cerri, will be housed in the Event Space on the sixth floor of the Prada Epicenter, which was conceived by Herzog & de Meuron and inaugurated last June. Constituting a foretaste of the celebration...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Italian Masterpieces From Raphael To Tiepolo
The works range in scale from intimate devotional paintings and portraits to state commissions, monumental altarpieces and mythological paintings. Italian Masterpieces from Raphael to Tiepolo will offer the public an unprecedented opportunity to e...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: The Renwick Invitational: Four Discoveries in Craft
The exhibition highlights 50 objects in various craft media. James Koehler of Santa Fe, N.M., weaves bold, colorful tapestries. Gyöngy Laky of San Francisco interlaces twigs, electrical wire and other found objects into nestlike baskets. Kristina ...

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