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Ivan the Terrible Showing Treasures to the English Ambassador Jerome Horsey
Alexander Litovchenko
A dramatic 19th-century historical painting depicting Tsar Ivan the Terrible presenting his vast riches to an English diplomat.
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Scholarly, moody, and old-world works with gravity.
Moody palettes, old-world formality, and scholarly subjects give this style its literary charm and quiet intensity.
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Reciting the Quran
Osman Hamdi Bey
A man is captured in a moment of quiet devotion within an ornate, tiled interior.
Contains nudity
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A Collector's Cabinet with Ivory Cup
Georg Hainz
An exquisite seventeenth-century trompe-l'oeil depicting a collection of rare and precious objects within a darkened cabinet.
Contains nudity
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A Collector's Cabinet
Hieronymous Francken II
An intricate Flemish Golden Age depiction of a private art gallery and the scholars within it.
Contains disturbing content
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Rahula and his Assembly
Unknown Artist
A powerful and intricate 19th-century Himalayan painting depicting the wrathful protector deity Rahula and his assembly.