[The Kiss]

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Title: The Kiss

Author: Francesco Hayez

Year: 1859

Style: Romanticism

Media: oil, canvas

Location: Palazzo Brera – Milan, Italy

[Man at the Window]

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Title: Man at the Window

Author: Gustave Caillebotte

Year: 1875

Style: Impressionism

Media: oil, canvas

Location: Private collection

[Windsor Castle]

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Name: Windsor Castle

Location: Berkshire, England

Build by: William I

Year: 1086

[Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue]

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Author: Andrea Mantegna

Title: Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue

Genre: mythological painting

Year: 1499

Medium: oil on panel

Location: Louvre Museum

[Allegory of the Battle of Austerlitz]

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Author: Antoine-Francois Callet

Title: Allegory of the Battle of Austerlitz

Year: 1805

Museum: Chateau de Versailles – France

[Jupiter of Smyrna]

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Title: Jupiter of Smyrna

Year: ~250 AD

Medium: marble

Location: Musée du Louvre

( Statue of a male deity known as “Jupiter of Smyrna”. Found in 1680 in Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey), the statue was brought to Louis XIV and restored as a Zeus ca. 1686 by Pierre Granier, who added the arm raising the thunderbolt. Marble, middle 2nd century AD. )