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Paintings of horses

  • The Last Day of PompeiiKarl Bryullov arrived in Rome with his brother Aleksandr via Venice and Florence in 1823. He saw Alessandro Sanquirico's set designs for Giovanni Pacini's…
  • Bonaparte Crossing the AlpsOn the 15th of May 1800, Napoleon and his army of 40,000 soldiers began their journey through the Alps. They did not take a wide road or an easy path.
  • The Allegory of Good and Bad GovernmentAmbrogio Lorenzetti began painting The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in February 1338. He finished the work by May 1339 inside Siena's Palazzo Pubblico.
  • The Triumph of DeathThe year 1562 marks the completion of an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It depicts a panorama where an army of skeletons wreaks havoc across…