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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, also De anatomische les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, is Rembrandt's 1632 group portrait of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, showing Tulp dissecting a forearm in the Waag; it hangs in the Mauritshuis.
The Angry Boy
The Angry Boy (Sinnataggen) is Gustav Vigeland's 83 cm bronze statue of a screaming boy on the Bridge in Vigeland Park, Oslo; sketched 1901, cast 1928, installed 1940, named by journalist R.A. Lorentzen in 1930, stolen New Year's Eve 1991.
The Apotheosis of Washington
The Apotheosis of Washington, also known as The Apotheosis of George Washington, is an 1865 fresco by Constantino Brumidi depicting Washington rising to the heavens in the US Capitol dome.
The Arrest of Prince Diponegoro
The Arrest of Prince Diponegoro (Penangkapan Pangeran Diponegoro) is an 1857 oil painting by Javanese painter Raden Saleh showing the prince's capture by the Dutch, ending the Java War.
The Artist and His Mother
The Artist and His Mother is an unfinished double portrait by Armenian American painter Arshile Gorky, based on a 1912 photograph of him with his mother in Armenia.
The Artist in His Museum
The Artist in His Museum is an 1822 oil self-portrait by American painter Charles Willson Peale, lifting a red curtain to reveal his Philadelphia Museum in Independence Hall.
The Australian Ugliness
The Australian Ugliness is a controversial 1960 bestseller by Australian architect Robin Boyd critiquing postwar Australia's architecture and design, coining "featurism" for the country's dominant design failing.
The Avenue in the Rain
The Avenue in the Rain is a 1917 oil painting by Childe Hassam showing Fifth Avenue draped with American flags on a rainy day, part of his flag series.
The Banjo Lesson
The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner showing an elderly Black man teaching a boy the banjo, held at the Hampton University Museum.
The Birds of America
The Birds of America is a book of 435 hand-colored engraved plates of North American birds by John James Audubon, published in London and Edinburgh from 1827 to 1838.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere), Botticelli, c. 1485, tempera on canvas, 172.5 × 278.5 cm, Uffizi. Shows Venus arriving on Cyprus on a shell, not her birth; Medici commission, first documented by Vasari in 1550.
The Blue Boy
The Blue Boy: Gainsborough's c. 1770 full-length oil portrait of an unidentified boy in blue Van Dyck costume, Huntington 21.1; sold via Duveen to Henry Huntington in 1921 for a record price.
The Bottom of the Sea
The Bottom of the Sea is a 1907 oil painting by Japanese painter Aoki Shigeru, depicting a Kojiki myth and held by the Artizon Museum in Tokyo.
The Brave and the Bold
The Brave and the Bold is a DC Comics anthology and team-up title (1955-1983, 200 issues), famous for debuting the Justice League and Suicide Squad and for its Batman team-up era; later revivals, a 2023 anthology, and a planned DCU film share the name.
The Bride's Toilet
The Bride's Toilet is a 1937 oil painting by Amrita Sher-Gil showing a bride being dressed by attendants before her wedding, held in New Delhi.
The Broken Column
The Broken Column (La Columna Rota, 1944) is Frida Kahlo's self-portrait with a fractured Ionic column for a spine, nails piercing her corseted body, held at the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City.
The Burghers of Calais
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) is Auguste Rodin's 1884–95 bronze monument of six citizens who offered their lives to Edward III in 1347; ground-level, anti-heroic, cast twelve times.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (El entierro del señor de Orgaz) is a large 1586–88 oil painting by El Greco in the church of Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain.
The Calling of Saint Matthew
The Calling of Saint Matthew (Italian: La Vocazione di San Matteo) is a large Caravaggio oil painting of 1599–1600 showing Christ calling the tax collector Matthew.
The Card Players
The Card Players (Les Joueurs de cartes) is Paul Cézanne's series of five 1890s oil paintings of farm laborers from his Jas de Bouffan estate playing cards, held at the Met, Barnes, Orsay, Courtauld, and a Qatari private collection; one sold in 2011 for a reported £250 million.
The Case Study of Vanitas (ヴァニタスの手記)
The Case Study of Vanitas (ヴァニタスの手記, Vanitas no Carte) is an ongoing Jun Mochizuki manga serialized in Gangan Joker since December 2015, set in steampunk 19th-century Paris, where human doctor Vanitas and the vampire Noé use the Book of Vanitas to cure cursed vampires; adapted as a 2021 Bones anime.
The City from Greenwich Village
The City from Greenwich Village is a 1922 oil painting by John Sloan, a nocturnal view of Lower Manhattan now in the National Gallery of Art.
The Coronation of Napoleon
The Coronation of Napoleon (Le Sacre de Napoléon) is Jacques-Louis David's monumental 1807 oil, 6.21 by 9.79 m, depicting Napoleon crowning Joséphine at Notre-Dame on 2 December 1804; it hangs in the Louvre's Salle Daru, with a second version at Versailles.
The County Election
The County Election is an 1851–52 oil painting by American artist George Caleb Bingham depicting men voting out loud on the porch of a Missouri courthouse.
The Course of Empire (paintings)
The Course of Empire is Thomas Cole's five-painting allegorical cycle (1833–1836) tracing a civilization from wilderness to empire, destruction, and ruin; held by the New-York Historical Society and later echoed in Ed Ruscha's 2005 series of the same name.
The Court of Gayumars
The Court of Gayumars, also spelled Kayumars, is a Persian miniature by Sultan Muhammad, painted around 1524 at Tabriz and now in the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam (Creazione di Adamo) is Michelangelo's 1511 Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco of Genesis 1:26-27, famous for the nearly touching fingers of God and Adam and debated anatomical interpretations.
The Crying Boy
The Crying Boy, also called the Bragolin Crying Boy, is a mass-produced print of a tearful child by Bruno Amadio (Giovanni Bragolin), blamed in a 1985 Sun tabloid panic for surviving house fires, later debunked.
The Daddies
The Daddies (French: Les papas) is a 2016 acrylic-on-canvas painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman that reimagines The Fathers of Confederation, inserting his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
The Dance Class
The Dance Class (La Classe de danse) is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas of ballet master Jules Perrot conducting a class, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.