Orest Adamovich Kiprensky

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Aerial view of Florence (Firenze), Italy from the campanile of the Duomo, with the gigantic dome (designed by Filippo Brunelleschi) in the foreground. Unidentifiable tourists are visible on top of the dome, which provide a measure of the building s scale.

25 Famous Paintings to See the Next Time You’re in Florence

Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson

Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art

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Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies

Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

Sculpture of woman before restoration (left) and after restoration on the exterior of an office building in Palencia, Spain. (art restoration)

5 Art Restorations Gone Wrong

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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

The Fastest Animals on Earth

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky: Facts & Related Content

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Born	March 24, 1782 • Russia
Died	October 17, 1836 (aged 54) • Rome • Italy
Movement / Style	Romanticism

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Rembrandt

Dutch artist

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist

Edgar Degas

French artist

Albrecht Dürer

German artist

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter

Anthony van Dyck

Flemish painter

Francisco Goya

Spanish artist

Andrea del Sarto

Italian painter

J.M.W. Turner

English painter

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

Théodore Géricault

French painter

Philipp Otto Runge

German artist

Antoine-Jean Gros

French painter

Caspar David Friedrich

German painter

William Morris Hunt

American painter

Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness

Asher B. Durand

American artist

Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.

Sir John Gilbert

British painter

Titian

Italian painter

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish artist

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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.

Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?

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