Above: "Grande Odalisque", by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Her back is longer than reality because Ingres added two extra vertebrae.
Below: Pictures 1 and 2 show the mob around Leonard Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa". If you see the painting, you may ask why.
Picture 4 is from "The Funeral At Atala", by Anne-Louis Girodet.
Picture 5 is the world's second largest painting "The Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I", by Jacques-Louis David.
Picture 6, "The Young Martyr", by Paul Delaroche.
Picture 7, "The Raft of the Medusa", by Théodore Géricault.
Picture 8, "Liberty Leading The People", by Eugène Delacroix.
Picture 9, "Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil", by Ari Scheffer.
Picture 10, "The Children of Edward", by Paul Delaroche. The two young boys of English King Edward IV were locked up in the
Tower of London when Edward died, by loving uncle Richard, so he could steal power and become King as Richard III. Lovely man.
Picture 11, the Galerie d'Apollon is a wing in the Louvre created in 1661, the first Royal Gallery of Louis XIV.
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