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The main image of the Colonna Altarpiece. Oil on Wood and Gold.

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,…

Oil on Wood. Center of the base of the Colonna Altarpiece.

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…

The Antinous as Osiris statue at the Vatican