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In this festive genre piece, Frans Hals captures the celebration of Shrove Tuesday, more commonly known as Mardi Gras. While theatrical stock characters jest about in the background, a seated young woman in an ornate dress raises a finger to speak,…

Set in a lively inn, this genre scene shares a couple's brief sublime moment with the viewer. While a young cavalier raises a glass into the corner of a frame, his companion clutches at his shoulder, pulling him back down to reality, or perhaps…

First painting by Henri Matisse that demonstrates African influence.

Matisse's first portrait of Germain Augustin Barthélémy Montargès.

Collection of early paintings by Matisse.

Matisse's later works that fall more in the vein of Orientalism.

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…

Observers marveling at the landscape