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Painting of elegantly dressed couples dancing on a garden terrace beside an urn and statue, with seated onlookers.

Rustic Dance

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1700

Crowded baroque banquet under classical arches, with reclining women, servants, armed men on a staircase, and smoke rising.

The Banquet of Cleopatra

Sebastiano Mazzoni, 1660

Painting of a Venetian canal with gondolas, a tall brick bell tower, a stone arched bridge and palaces under a blue sky.

Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice

Canaletto, 1700

Painting of peasants with cattle, goats and sheep beside a rocky cliff and stone house under a cloudy sky.

Peasants and Cattle

Nicholaes Berchem, 1620

Painting of the Nativity with the infant Christ in a manger, Mary and Joseph, shepherd, ox, donkey, and an arched stone inter

The Nativity

Juan González, 1660

Painting of a woman in a yellow gown surrounded by men in a colonnaded hall while a kneeling figure writes on the floor.

Woman Taken in Adultery

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1700

Painting of a man in a blue coat pointing across a river to settlers, a woman, children and a sailing ship on a hillside.

Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural)

F. Luis Mora, 1700

Painting of villagers dancing and playing music in a rustic tavern interior beside a fireplace, with a barrel and jug in the

Festive Scene

Jan Miense Molenaer, 1650

Stormy sea with a battered sailing ship, wreckage in the surf, and figures on a rocky shore beneath dark clouds.

The Storm

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1700