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The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo · c. 1512
The Collection
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19 works
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci · 1495–1498
The School of Athens
Raphael · 1509–1511
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli · c. 1484–1486
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Caravaggio · 1599–1600
The Trinity
Andrei Rublev · c. 1411–1425
Christ Enthroned, Book of Kells
Columban monks · c. 800
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Hubert & Jan van Eyck · 1432
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt · c. 1668
The Kiss of Judas
Giotto · c. 1305
The Annunciation
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1472–1476
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
El Greco · 1586–1588
David
Michelangelo · 1501–1504
Laocoön and His Sons
Agesander, Athenodoros & Polydorus · c. 40–20 BC
Venus de Milo
Attributed to Alexandros of Antioch · c. 150–125 BC
The Nativity at Night
Geertgen tot Sint Jans · c. 1490
The Resurrection
Piero della Francesca · c. 1463–1465
The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · c. 1767–1768
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1818
A closer encounter
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Explore masterpieces through the choices their makers made: space, light and the human body.
Raphael · 1509–1511
Perspective and reason
In the School of Athens, architecture turns philosophy into a visible assembly. Converging lines lead to Plato and Aristotle while separate groups enact distinct modes of thought.
Curator’s observation
Follow the pavement and the coffered vault: geometry provides both a believable room and a hierarchy of attention.
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