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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun painted this portrait of Caroline Murat, the later Queen of Naples, and her daughter Letizia in 1807. The painting was commissioned for the Palais des Tuileries, and clearly, the Queen is dressed for the occasion in an…

This portrait of Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, the wife of the comte de la Châtre, was painted by French portrait artist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun in 1789. Bontemps is wearing a simple, classic white muslin dress, popularized…

This krater, or funerary vase, was built as a grave monument ca. 750-735 B.C.E. The krater uses traditional Geometric patterns like meanders and checkerboard designs, in addition to two rows of illustrated scenes. The bottom row shows chariots and…