Mocking of Christ
Anthony van Dyck
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Collection
Power & Politics in Renaissance & Baroque Painting
39 paintings exploring the theme of power & politics, from artists including Anthony van Dyck, Leonardo da Vinci, James McNeill Whistler, Moretto da Brescia and across institutions such as Cleveland Museum of Art, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Device For Making Sequins
Leonardo da Vinci
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Studies Of A Bear Walking
Leonardo da Vinci
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Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach
James McNeill Whistler
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Mary Magdalene
Moretto da Brescia
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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Correggio
1457 likes27 comments
Eve
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1547 likes77 comments
Adam
Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Near Newport
John Frederick Kensett American
942 likes132 comments
Diana and Actaeon
Jacopo Bassano
555 likes125 comments
Saint Jerome
Jusepe de Ribera
1349 likes19 comments
Peach Blossoms
Winslow Homer
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A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066, to the Year 1677
Francis Sandford
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The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the left and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni
Francois de Poilly
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Saint Christopher walking with the infant Christ on his right shoulder
Guido Reni
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The Holy Family
Guido Reni
1320 likes70 comments
Epileptics Walking to the Left from Pilgrimage of the Epileptics to the Church at Molenbeeck
Hendrick Hondius I
1107 likes57 comments
Saint Catherine in the Clouds
Peter Paul Rubens
1351 likes21 comments
The Nativity
Fra Bartolommeo
1420 likes50 comments
Christ Before Pilate: Large Plate
Rembrandt van Rijn
1478 likes128 comments
Clump of Trees with a Vista
Rembrandt van Rijn
960 likes110 comments
Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'
Rembrandt van Rijn
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St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape
Rembrandt van Rijn
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Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez
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Tarquin and Lucretia
Tintoretto
1339 likes29 comments
Adoration of the Magi
Jan van Scorel
1158 likes88 comments
Landscape with Tournament and Hunters
Jan van Scorel
1458 likes128 comments
The Resurrection
Cecco del Caravaggio
918 likes148 comments
Still Life with Ostrich Egg Cup and the Whitfield Heirlooms
Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten
782 likes132 comments
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
Jacob van Ruisdael
1127 likes57 comments
The Adoration of the Christ Child
Jacob Cornelisz. van OostsanenWorkshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen
441 likes111 comments
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Diego Velázquez
1548 likes138 comments
View of Cotopaxi
Frederic Edwin Church
1124 likes54 comments
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Georges Seurat
1031 likes81 comments
Mount Washington
Winslow Homer
727 likes17 comments
Bar-room Scene
William Sidney Mount
1041 likes31 comments
Looking upon the River
Julie Hart Beers
1384 likes34 comments
Flower Girl in Holland
George Hitchcock American
1054 likes124 comments
The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne
1398 likes108 comments
Why power & politics recurs across renaissance & baroque painting
The theme of power & politics returns again and again across two centuries of European painting. Renaissance and Baroque artists were working inside a culture where this subject carried specific weight: religious, civic, moral, erotic, political. The paintings collected here are not a random group — they are a record of how that subject was handled, contested, and reinvented by the painters who shaped Western art.
Each painting page on Paintale opens with the story of the work, then drills into the symbols a contemporary viewer would have read, the techniques the painter used to make those symbols feel inevitable, and the provenance trail that brought the painting from its first patron to its current museum wall.