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Pastoral Scenes, Shepherds and Sheep in 19th-Century French Painting
The century that took the pastoral back from porcelain shepherdesses and gave it the weight of a biblical scene.
The Barbizon School in Painting
A village an hour from Paris, an inn, and the painters who decided a stand of oaks deserved what the Salon gave to Ovid.
Salome and the Head of John the Baptist in Painting
Salome and the head of John the Baptist: the platter that identifies her, the painters who made the subject from Luini to Moreau, and how to collect it.
Judith and Holofernes in Painting
To view our collection on Judith and Holofernes Part of our series on the Women of the Gospels in Painting. See also our guides to Mary Magdalene and the Samaritan Woman at the Well. Caravaggio, ...
Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well in Old Master Painting
Our collecting guides → She does not weep. She does not kneel. She does not repent. She stands by a well at noon, holding a clay jar, and argues with a stranger who turns out to be God. Christ and...
Mary Magdalene in Old Master Painting
She was a sinner, a saint, a hermit, a feminist icon and for five centuries, the woman every European painter wanted to paint. From Titian's golden storms of hair to Caravaggio's quiet Roman girl i...