The Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix in the Louvre shows an incredibly cruel picture of how the Assyrian king killed all his mistresses before setting himself an his possessions on fire!

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 The Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix in the Louvre shows

At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance by Toulouse-Lautrec in the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows the can-can dance in the middle of the Moulin Rouge in 1890!

 At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance by Toulouse-Lautrec in the

Manet was not among the many spectators of The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Instead Manet recreated this painting based on the extensive newspaper coverage of this battle near the coast of France.

 Manet was not among the many spectators of The Battle of

The contrast between colors in the Crucifixion Diptych (c. 1460) by Rogier van de Weyden in the Philadelphia Museum of Art is so beautiful that the painting is already amazing from a large distance!