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Great Works: Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682), Claude Lorrain
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Great Works: Silence (1799-1801), Henry Fuseli
Kunsthaus, Zurich
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Great Works: Judith beheading Holofernes (1612-13), Artemisia Gentileschi
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
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