Charlemagne observes the arrival of Viking drakkars on the Seine in the 9th century
by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville
The Death of Priam by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Sir Bedivere throwing Excalibur into the lake by Walter Crane
Night Storm at Cefalù by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
View of the Pantheon, Rome by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
Tarquin’s Sons Admiring Lucretia’s Virtue by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
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Perseus and Andromeda by Gustave Moreau
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A Lady and her Knight Errant, Possibly a Scene from Ivanhoe
by Robert Scott Lauder
An italianate landscape with figures at a bridge
by Dirck Verhaert
Imaginary view of Roman ruins with fountain and figures
by Hubert Robert
The Cumaean Sibyl by Elihu Vedder
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