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Cavalier arabe (c.1854)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Cavalier arabe (Arab Rider) c.1854 Oil on panel, 35 x 26.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of…

San Giorgio e il drago (c.1506)

Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…