Dusty Art

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci c. 1503–1506, perhaps continuing until c. 1517

+ This painting is so famous that it begs the question… “why?”

Dusty Art

Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1505-1515), depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter.

Dusty Art

The Head of Medusa by Franz von Stuck (c. 1892) is considered to be one of the most chilling paintings ever created.

Stuck was part of the Symbolist movement and this is arguably the best of the “femme fatale” paintings that were prevalent in the movement.

Dusty Art

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt

Dusty Art

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker, c. 1649, is an oil on canvas portrait painting and the most well-known of a subject who is among the most divisive figures in English history .

Dusty Art

Portrait of King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1537)

Dusty Art

An Idyll of 1745 by the English artist John Everett Millais is a Victorian era work that depicts a pastoral scene wherein a British drummer boy plays a fife for three Scottish girls.

However, the title gives something away. In 1745, the British and Scottish were fighting the Jacobite Rebellion.

Dusty Art

Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell

Dusty Art

The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch (1877)

Dusty Art

Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth