The Greatest Famous Classicist Paintings
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648) is a painting by French artist Claude Lorrain.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes" (c. 1685) is a painting by Dutch artist Gerard de Lairesse.
- 37 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Apollo and Aurora" (1671) is a painting by Dutch artist Gerard de Lairesse.
- 46 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Summer (Ruth and Boaz)" (c. 1660-1664) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. This is one of four paintings in Poussin's "The Seasons" series.
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Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainLandscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia is an 1682 oil on canvas painting by Claude Lorrain, a painter of the style of Classicism. It depicts a scene from book 7, verses 483–499, of Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, where Aeneas's son Ascanius shoots Silvia's pet stag, provoking a war against Latium. Painted for Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, it was Lorrain's's last painting. It was a pendant to Lorrain's earlier painting Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago The painting is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. - 66 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Self Portrait" (1650) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Autumn (The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land)" (c. 1660-1664) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. This is one of four paintings in Poussin's "The Seasons" series.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPrometheus Brings Fire To Mankind (1817) is a painting by German artist Heinrich Füger .
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Queen Zenobia Found on the Banks of the Arax" (1634) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainThe Trojan Women Setting Fire to their Fleet (c. 1643) is a painting by French artist Claude Lorrain.
- 113 VOTESPhoto: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain"Spring (The Earthly Paradise)" (c. 1660-1664) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. This is one of four paintings in Poussin's "The Seasons" series.