Woman Sleeping
Work by Hungarian painter Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1836-1898). It was painted in 1867 when, despite being only 28 years old, the artist was already a…
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The Saint’s Dream, by Carpaccio
The Saint’s Dream is a work by Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio (1465-1525 / 1526). It is part of a series of nine paintings called…
Sleeping Ariadne
Sleeping Ariadne, the famous Hellenistic muse, is one of the most famous sculptures of Antiquity, dating from the Roman Emperor Hadrian period (2nd century…
Girl Asleep by Johannes Vermeer
Girl Asleep (1657) by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) depicts the sleep of a maid, certainly after having served a drink (there are two…
Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus
The Sleeping Venus, by Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco Barbarelli, 1477-1510), is considered by critics one of the starting points for modern…
The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
This picture, by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), belonging to Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, is one of the few works in which the…
I am the nymph of the sacred spring, do not disturb my sleep, I am resting
Nymph of the Spring, by German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), depicts a nymph as a seductive woman unveiling. The bow and arrows…
A Sleeping Odalisque by Ingres
A Sleeping Odalisque is a work by French painter Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), best known for his works La Grande Odalisque and Odalisque with…
The reckless sleeper, by René Magritte
In Le dormeur Téméraire (1928), by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, a man sleeps in a wooden cubicle, above a dark cloudy sky. This…
Sleep, by Edgar Degas
French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas performed this work during the years between 1883 and 1885, in monotype – an artistic process that produces a…
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