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Discover Canaletto’s 1763 masterpiece Piazza San Marco Looking South and West, a meticulously detailed, sunlit view of Venice’s famed square bustling with elegant figures.

Explore Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s vibrant 1920s illustration “Spanish Shawl,” featuring a stylish woman draped in an embroidered mantón de Manila against a neutral backdrop.

Discover Ferdinand Keller’s 1872 masterpiece Diana amongst the Spoils of the Hunt, where the Roman goddess reclines amid her fallen stag, game birds, and hound in a golden forest clearing.

Explore Titian’s c.1550 masterpiece “King Philip II of Spain,” where the Venetian master uses rich color, refined brushwork, and regal iconography to convey monarchical authority and introspective depth.

Discover Jean d’Ylen’s iconic 1930 Art Deco poster “Sandeman’s Port,” featuring a dynamic white centaur and red-haired maiden against a striking black background.

Discover Abraham Bloemaert’s Farmyard with Dovecote (c.1625–30), a Dutch Golden Age masterpiece depicting a raised dovecote, grazing goats, and a farmwoman at work.

Discover Alexej von Jawlensky’s 1913 Expressionist masterpiece “Egyptian Girl,” where bold, non-naturalistic color and simplified form convey spiritual intensity.

Discover John Frederick Lewis’s Halt in the Desert (c. 1871), a luminous Orientalist watercolor of an Arab caravan pausing on a sun-bleached desert plain.

Discover Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque (1814): a Neoclassical masterpiece blending sinuous line, lush textiles, and Orientalist fantasy in a reclining nude.

Explore Eduard von Steinle’s 1855 masterpiece “Holy Family with St. John,” depicting Mary, Joseph, the Christ Child, and young John the Baptist in serene communion.

Discover Luca Giordano’s dynamic Baroque masterpiece The Flight into Egypt, depicting the Holy Family’s escape across a moonlit river with cherubic angels above.

Explore Will Rogers’s grin in Louis Glackens’s Art Deco poster for the play Lightnin’, featuring bold typography, zigzag motifs, and Rogers’s iconic charm.

Discover François Boucher’s 1747 Rococo gem “Are They Thinking about the Grape?”—an intimate pastoral fête of youth, romance, and Arcadian charm.

Discover Walter Crane’s 1876 King Cole, a richly detailed nursery-rhyme illustration of Old King Cole on his throne, three fiddlers, a parrot, and a royal page.

Explore Arthur Rackham’s 1912 “King Log” from Aesop’s Fables—a richly detailed illustration of frogs enthroned on a fallen log in a misty marsh.

Discover Raoul Dufy’s Fauvist gem “Little Bather in Sainte-Adresse,” a vibrant seaside scene of a child in a navy swimsuit against stylized coastal huts.

Explore Félix Vallotton’s 1902 lithograph “Ah ! bougre de salaud, tu m’as appelé vache !”, a biting satire of police violence from L’Assiette au Beurre.

Discover George Barbier’s Au Lido (1924), an Art Deco poster of elegant bathers and playful children on Venice’s fashionable beach, rendered in crisp lines and pastel hues.