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Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and the Descent into Limbo [entire triptych] by Andrea di Vanni

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/206072-scenes-passion-christ-agony-garden-crucifixion-and-descent-limbo-entire-triptych

This three-part altarpiece by the painter Andrea di Vanni reflects a growing concern among 14th-century artists to historicize the Biblical narrative. To accomplish this, Andrea endeavored to recreate, with the greatest possible accuracy, the events surrounding Christ’s Passion.
A halo encircles the bent head of the man on the middle cross, Jesus, who wears a

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Silvio with the Wounded Dorinda by Louis Vallée

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/80803-silvio-wounded-dorinda

Louis Vallée took his subject from Giovanni Battista Guarini’s late sixteenth-century tragicomedy Il Pastor Fido, a pastoral play that glorified arcadian life and had far-ranging effects on the art and literature of France, Flanders, and the Netherlands. Its extremely intricate plot focuses on the love between the faithful shepherd Mirtillo and the nymph Amarillis, who is betrothed to Silvio by paternal arrangement.
with a short slash across her chest reclines into the arms of an older, bearded man

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Kids West Building Tour: Featured Selections | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/visit/tours-guides/audio-tours/kids-west-building-tour-featured-selections

Use your smartphone to explore a wide range of works through the voices of National Gallery of Art curators. Set your own pace by listening to as many stops as you like in the order you choose. Don’t forget to bring your headphones! To listen to information about a work of art, enter the stop number in the box below, select „go“, and press the play button when the stop appears.  
The skeleton represents Death and the man is the Miser.

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The Return by Thomas Cole

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/166438-return

Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
On a dirt path across the front of the picture, an armored man is carried on a red

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