Saint Jerome in His Study
Antonello da Messina, 1474

St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin in the 4th century. He’s the patron saint of scholars and translators and had one Europe’s finest libraries, over 2,000 books.

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Vittore Carpaccio

Young Knight in a Landscape, 1505

St. George and the Dragon, 1502

St. Augustine in His Studio, 1502

Dream of St. Ursula 1490-94

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self portrait of baroque artist Caravaggio dressed as Bacchus, wearing a white tunic and holding grapes

Self-Portrait as Bacchus
Caravaggio, 1593

“There was art before him and after him, and they were not the same.”
~ Robert Hughes

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Adoration of the Magi
Gentile da Fabriano, 1423

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Parmigianino, 1524

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Piero Cattaneo is One of History's Best Children's Book Illustrators, But You've Never Heard of Him By 1949, having achieved a certain level of professionalism, he accepted a job at the Italian Institute of Graphic Arts, where he began his profession as an illustrator. His work proved to be wildly p...

You’ll find his work is children’s books, but it’s beyond worthy of museums and high art praises this is the work of Porto Cattaneo and he was one of the world’s best illustrators that you’ve never heard of.

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