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Faust is a series of approximately 100 paintings created between 1976 and 1979 by Nabil Kanso. The paintings depict figural compositions in a sequence of scenes whose subjects are loosely based on Goethe 's 1808 play Faust Part One and Part Two .
Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. It shows the archangel Michael standing on top of Satan 's back with his right foot. The painting was commissioned by Pope Leo X and has been located in the Louvre in Paris since 1667.
The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum .
The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth. For painters with more than two works in the collection, or for paintings by unnamed and unknown artists, see the Louvre website.
Scene from Faust The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe 's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other famous authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller 's Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and ...
Throughout the world, there are many works of art that have a contested provenance. This may be due to theft, lost documentation, looting , or just information lost to antiquity. In some cases, just the previous or current ownership of the work is disputed, but in other cases the authenticity of the work itself may be thought to be a forgery .
KENT, England, March 13 (Reuters) - An album containing never-before-seen candid photos of German Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and party members will be auctioned on Wednesday, according to the ...
Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʒak fʁɑ̃swa fɔst ləfɛvʁ], 24 September 1755, in Bayeux – 3 October 1830, in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings.