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Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
A docent's guide to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Children's Games, painted in 1560 and held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The painting shows children playing across a street or square, and this tour uses the supplied Commons record to explore what the work is about. The evidence is thin, so the account stays close to what the source supports.
Artist: After Pieter Brueghel the Elder
A wide Flemish landscape in which the mythical fall of Icarus is reduced to a small splash in the sea, while a ploughman, a shepherd and a sailing ship carry on with ordinary work. The painting is attributed to a follower after Pieter Brueghel the Elder and is associated with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A midday pause in the harvest, painted by Vincent van Gogh after a composition by Jean-François Millet. This short tour looks at how Van Gogh turned Millet's scene of rest into a painting of heat, colour and quiet.
Artist: Circle of Diego Velázquez
A bust-length portrait of Pope Innocent X, painted around 1650 by an anonymous artist associated with Diego Velázquez. The work shows the pope in crimson, looking at us from the corners of his eyes against a deep shadow. This gallery visit explains what the painting represents and how its visible choices shape that reading.
Artist: Maker unknown
A bronze colossus stands in Barletta, in the Apulia region of Italy. The surviving record identifies the object and its material but leaves its maker, date, dimensions and subject unstated.
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse] by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1474/1478)](/print-assets/a3b407ac2339ec19054a94046182beb154bb14a85dc2a43c4fb752e09b41e6c6-preview.jpg "Ginevra de' Benci [obverse] by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1474/1478) | High-resolution image")
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
A docent-led reading of Leonardo's portrait of the young Florentine Ginevra de' Benci, made around the time of her betrothal, in which a juniper bush becomes a play on her name and a statement of virtue.
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