The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Poetry and History Celebrate Rome's Warlike Exploits

1632

Judith and Holophernes

1637

Esther and Assuerus

1637

Moses and the Daughters of Jethro

1655

Jephta erblickt seine Tochter

Helen Carried Off by Paris

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David

1787

View of Toledo

El Greco

1596

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent

1884

The Harvesters

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

1565

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze

1851

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt

1653