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| El Greco Assumption of the Virgin ca. 1577-79 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Peter Paul Rubens Annunciation of the Virgin's Death ca. 1609-1612 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Guercino Agony in the Garden ca. 1645 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Adam Frans van der Meulen The Colbert Family ca. 1680-83 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Allegory of Winter and Summer ca. 1720 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Philippe Mercier Scene from The Careless Husband (comedy by Colley Cibber) ca. 1720 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Henry Fuseli Dispute between Hotspur, Glendower, Mortimer, and Worcester (Shakespeare's Henry IV, part 1, act III, scene 1) 1784 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
Mortimer: Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Glendower: Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command
The devil.
Hotspur: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
Mortimer: Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
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| William Etty Beniah (Biblical Warrior) ca. 1824-34 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| John Prescott Knight Noli me tangere (resurrected Christ admonishing Mary Magdalen) ca. 1840 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| William Holman Hunt The Flight of Madeline and Porphyro (scene from Keats's narrative poem, The Eve of St Agnes) ca. 1847-57 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Frank William Warwick Topham The Fall of Rienzi, the last Roman Tribune (Nicola Gabrini, called Cola di Rienzo, 1313-1354, subject of a Wagner opera) 1872 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Frederic Shields The Annunciation 1894 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci (seduction of the knight, from Keats's ballad) ca. 1901 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| William Orpen St Patrick before 1931 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
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| Sandro Chia Courageous Boys at Work 1981 oil and oil pastel on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |