The Magic Lantern

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Portrait of Laura Battiferri with the Canzoniere (detail) by Angelo Bronzino, ca. 1550-1555 

detail of Woman Holding a Balance c. 1664; Oil on canvas, by Jan Vermeer

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Thomas Gainsborough

Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Detail

John William Waterhouse: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (detail)

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Garden of Earthly Delights (centre panel, detail) by Hieronymus Bosch

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Osias Beert. detail of Still Life with Cherries and Strawberries in Porcelain Bowls. 1608.

Antonello da Messina, Vergine Annunziata (detail) 1475-1476

Carl von Steuben (1788–1856)

La liseuse (detail)

Hans Memling. Netherlands painter & draftsman. St John Altarpiece (detail) - 1474-79

Oil on oak panel, 173,6 x 173,7 cm (central), 176 x 78,9 cm (each wing)
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Sandro Botticelli
The Temptation of Christ (detail)
1481-82
Fresco, 345 x 555 cm
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

detail of Andrea Mantegna’s “The Court of Mantua” 1471-74 Fresco, 805 x 807. cm Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua.

Lucas Cranach the Elder. The Suicide of Lucretia, 1538 (detail)

Thebes, December 4th 1838, detail of the colossi of Memnon, plate 12 from Volume I of ‘Egypt and Nubia’, engraved by Louis Haghe

Constant Montald

La Barque de l’Idéal (détail) 1907
Huile sur toile,
400 x 505 cm,
Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles