Images Dated 19th September 2005

Girl with a Pearl Earring, c1665. Artist: Jan Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring, c1665. The girl's headdress has an exotic effect. Turbans were a popular fashionable accessory in Europe as early as the 15th century. It has been suggested that the pearl in Vermeer's painting is a symbol of chastity. From the collection of the Mauritshuis, the Hague, Netherlands

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The Entourage of Cleopatra, 1746-47. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Entourage of Cleopatra, 1746-47. One of the most important commissions carried out by Tiepolo in the 1740s was, without a doubt, the decoration of the Palazzo Labia in Venice. Tiepolo's scenes, The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra and The Banquet of Cleopatra, are staged within an illusory architecture, the scenic framework lending them a theatrical character. The two female servants with the dog are typical secondary figures, used time and again by Tiepolo in numerous works to enrich the main action

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The Madonna of Canon van der Paele, 1436. Artist: Jan van Eyck

The Madonna of Canon van der Paele, 1436. Canon van der Paele is shown in the choir of the collegiate church of St. Donatian in Bruges, where he is being presented to the Virgin by St George and St Donatian

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