Europäisches Erbe

Ophelia. Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky (Russian, 1839-1915).

Circe Invidiosa, 1892. John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917).

Lady Absinth, 1901. Ferdinand Keller (German, 1822-1922).

Landscape With a Castle. John Martin (English, 1789-1854).

Faust's Dream, by Luis Ricardo Falero (Spanish, 1851-1896).

Der junge Held wird von Athena beschützt (Athena Protects the Young Hero), 1854, Berlin, Germany. Gustav Bläser (German, 1813-1874).

17th Century village, Soggy Bibury, England.

Gleaner. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905).

Resting. William Arthur Breakspeare (English, 1856-1914).

Highlands of Iceland.

Dragging Portage. Nicholas Roerich (Russian' 1874-1947).

The Polar Star. William Shackleton (English, 1872-1933).

This golden spur is the only one of its kind from Viking Age Scandinavia. It is decorated with Borre-style animals and was made by a Scandinavian goldsmith in the second half of the 900s.

Morion from an all'Antica Set c. 1560, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The morion, created by an anonymous Northern Italian master, was part of an all'antica set which belonged to Archduke Ferdinand II. The iron parts of the helmet were decorated with embossed, gold damascened and sumptuously executed mythological scenes. Evidence of the tradition of fantastic, bizarre helmet forms is already known in painting, drawing and other media as of the second half of the fifteenth century.

Bathers at La Grenouillère, 1869. Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926).

A composite Longsword, 16th century AD, German.

The Village School, 1825. George Harvey (Scottish, 1806-1876).

The Balance of the Zodiac. Luis Ricardo Falero (Spanish, 1851-1896).

Silver, 1886. Albert Joseph Moore (English, 1841-1893).