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87 paintings

  • The Ambassadors
    The Ambassadors
    Hans Holbein the Younger
    1533 · National Gallery
  • Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
    Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
    Vincent van Gogh
    1884 · Van Gogh Museum
  • Penitent Magdalene
    Penitent Magdalene
    Titian
    c. 1561–1565 · Hermitage Museum
  • Portrait of a young man with a skull
    Portrait of a young man with a skull
    Frans Hals
    1626–1628 · National Gallery
  • Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
    Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
    Georges de La Tour
    1640–1645 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • Saint Francis in the Desert
    Saint Francis in the Desert
    Giovanni Bellini
    c. 1480s–1480 · The Frick Collection
  • The Penitent Mary Magdalene
    The Penitent Mary Magdalene
    El Greco
    c. 1576–1577 · Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  • The Crystal Ball
    The Crystal Ball
    John William Waterhouse
    1902
  • The Penitent Magdalen
    The Penitent Magdalen
    Georges de La Tour
    c. 1625–1640 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Pyramid of Skulls
    Pyramid of Skulls
    Paul Cézanne
    1898–1900
  • The Repentant Magdalen
    The Repentant Magdalen
    Georges de La Tour
    1635–1640 · National Gallery of Art
  • Christ on the Cross
    Christ on the Cross
    Eugène Delacroix
    1835 · musée de la Cohue
  • The Repentant Magdalen
    The Repentant Magdalen
    El Greco
    c. 1577 · Worcester Art Museum
  • Mary Magdalene
    Mary Magdalene
    Alfred Stevens
    1887 · Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
  • Vanitas
    Vanitas
    Philippe de Champaigne
    1646 · Musée de Tessé
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