Famous Paintings 1-17
17 entries in the Famous Paintings compendium.
The Vulture and the Little GirlPulitzer-winning photo of a starving child stalked by a vulture.The Weeping WomanPicasso's series of paintings depicting a weeping woman, inspired by the Spanish Civil WarThe Wounded DeerSelf-portrait as a wounded deer expressing physical and emotional pain.Thirty-six Views of Mount FujiSeries of landscape prints by Hokusai featuring Mount Fuji.Tiger in a Tropical StormFirst of Rousseau's jungle paintings, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants.Triptych of the Temptation of St. AnthonyBosch's triptych depicts Saint Anthony's spiritual torments with fantastic imagery.V-J Day in Times SquareIconic photograph of a sailor kissing a stranger on V-J Day.Veiled ChristMarble effigy of Christ with a translucent shroud.Venus CallipygeAncient Roman marble statue of a woman with beautiful buttocks.Venus de' MediciA Hellenistic marble copy of a Praxitelean Aphrodite.Venus of UrbinoTitian's reclining nude, erotic and debated in meaning.View from the Window at Le GrasOldest surviving photograph, created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827.View of ToledoOne of two surviving landscapes by El Greco, held in New York.Virgin of the RocksTwo nearly identical paintings by Leonardo da Vinci of the Virgin and Child.Vitruvian ManLeonardo da Vinci's iconic study of ideal human proportions.Wanderer above the Sea of FogA man contemplates a vast, fog-shrouded landscape from a rocky height.Warsaw Ghetto boyUnidentified child symbolizing Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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