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Joaquín Sorolla - Walk on the Beach, 1909 (detail), oil on canvas

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Caravaggio, detalle de “Judith y Holofernes”

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), Spring Breeze (details)

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Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Fields after the Rain, 1890, oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

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Roman mosaic discovered during the last excavations in Pompeii.

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Roman fresco (3rd style) from the tablinum of the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto  (V 4,a) in Pompeii.

By: Wolfgang Rieger (CC0)

Tablinum: The central room at the end of the atrium (main hall) of a Roman house. 

Third style: From the end of the reign of Augustus, a more delicate and colourful style of fresco.

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Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

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Maurice Taquoy (French, 1878-1952)

Two Smoking Women, 1928

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Bronze statuette of Aphrodite. Artist unknown; ca. 150-100 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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John William Waterhouse  -  Flora and the Zephyrs,  1898  (detail)

English, 1849-1917 

Oil on canvas

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Cuno Amiet  -  Dancing Bathers,  1891

Swiss, 1868-1961

Oil on canvas

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Vlaho Bukovac  -  Midsummer,  1903

Croatian, 1855-1922

Oil on canvas

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having mud on your carpet is gay

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1933. Άγαλμα γυναίκας με πτυχωτό ένδυμα που μόλις έχει ανασκαφεί.   Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών, Αρχείο Ανασκαφών Αγοράς

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1933. Statue of a woman in a pleated dress that has just been excavated. American School of Classical Studies, Market Excavation Archive

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Mischief and Repose.   John William Godward (British, 1861-1922)

Le réveil.  Jean Alphonse Roehn (French, 1799-1864) 

Le Repos des Nymphes. François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

The Serenade.  Leonard Raven-Hill (British, 1867-1942)