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Self-Portrait Ferdinand Bol · c. 1669 Orpheus and the Animals Paulus Potter · 1650 Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard Pieter de Hooch · 1663 Yang Pu Moving His Family Artist Unknown · Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝 Allegory of the Sciences Gerard de Lairesse · c. 1675 - c. 1683 Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles v in Brussels Frans Francken (II) · c. 1635 - c. 1640 Selene and Endymion Gerard de Lairesse · c. 1680 Saint George and the Dragon Bernat Martorell · 1434–35 The Continence of Scipio Karel van Mander (I) · 1600 Amsterdam as the Centre of World Trade Pieter Isaacsz. · c. 1604 - c. 1607 Winter Jacob de Wit · 1740 Milarepa on Mount Kailash Tibet · c. 1500 Legends of the Yūzū Nembutsu Sect Artist unknown · Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century Bust of Paris Antonio Canova · 1809 Bodhisattva Jizo anonymous · c. 1300 - c. 1350 Dragon and Tiger Sesson Shūkei · c. 1546–56 Orpheus Odilon Redon · c. 1903–10 Triomf van de liefde Giulio Bonasone · 1545 View of the Temple of ‘Juno’ at Paestum Giovanni Battista Piranesi · c. 1775 The Creation of Adam Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · c. 1645/50 Fries met de triomf van de Liefde Meester van de Dobbelsteen · c. 1530 - c. 1560 Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual Teotihuacan · 500–600 CE Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) Antonio Canova · 1816 Triomf van de liefde Philips Galle · c. 1565 Portico and pediment from the Huydecoper house Philips Vinckboons (II) · 1639 The Annunciation Alessandro Vittoria · c. 1583 Saint Michael and the Devil Spanish · 1475–1500 Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja) India · Chola period, about 10th/11th century The Cog Boat Borne by Mercury, Hercules, Minerva and Neptune Artus Quellinus (I) · c. 1651 - c. 1652 Seated Cupid Étienne-Maurice Falconet · 1757 Head of a Male Deity (Deva) Khmer · Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century Karttikeya, Commander of the Divine Army, Seated on a Peacock India · Ganga Period, about 12th century Vouwwaaier met blad van papier waarop in aquarel een huwelijksscène anonymous · c. 1765 - c. 1780 Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads Sahkulu · mid-1500s The bodhisattva Maitreya anonymous · c. 200 - c. 300 The bodhisattva Maitreya anonymous · 500 - 525 Guanyin anonymous · c. 1100 - c. 1200 The bodhisattva Manjushri anonymous · c. 800 - c. 900 The Buddha Amida anonymous · c. 1125 - c. 1175 Kuvera (Jambhala) anonymous · 850 - 930 Mercury c. 1560 - c. 1565 Guanyin anonymous · 512 Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin Mexica (Aztec) · c. 1503 The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer Praxiteles · c. 350–200 BCE Aurora Borealis Frederic Edwin Church · 1865 Jupiter and Semele Gustave Moreau · between 1894 and 1895 Sol (the Sun) Johan Gregor van der Schardt · c. 1570 - c. 1581 Roemer Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher · c. 1625 - c. 1650