Love + marriage

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, c. 1750, oil on canvas, 69.8 x 119.4 cm (The National Gallery, London) — […]

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, plate 3, "The Tavern Scene," 1735, engraving on paper, 35.5 x 31 cm — […]

William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride (slightly cropped), 1761, oil on canvas, 36 x 46 1/2 inches / 91.4 x 118.1 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride

Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (detail) — […]

Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding (detail) — […]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding

William Hogarth, Marriage a-la-Mode (detail) — […]

William Hogarth, Marriage a-la-Mode

Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin (detail) — […]

Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin

Franz von Stuck, The Sin (detail) — […]

Franz von Stuck, The Sin

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (detail) — […]

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (detail) — […]

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Progress of Love: The Meeting, 1771-1773, oil on canvas, 317.5 x 243.8 cm (The Frick Collection, New York) — […]

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Progress of Love: The ...

Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera (detail) — […]

Frida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego Rivera

Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso, Cassone with the Conquest of Trebizond, 1460s, tempera, gold and silver on wood, 9 1/2 x 77 x 32 7/8 inches / 100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Cassone with the Conquest of Trebizond

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss (detail) — […]

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss

Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing, From Pictorial Cycle of Eight Poetic Subjects, mid 18th century, oil on canvas, 91.4 x 88.9 cm, Shiraz, Iran (Brooklyn Museum) — […]

Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing

Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times; Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Victoria, Princess Royal, 1840-43, oil on canvas, 113.3 x 144.5 cm (The Royal Collection) — […]

Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern ...

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait with Saskia, 1636, etching, 104 x 95 cm (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England) — […]

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Saskia

Peter Paul Rubens, The Presentation of the Portrait of Marie de' Medici (detail) — […]

Peter Paul Rubens, The Presentation of the ...

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, c. 520 B.C.E., Etruscan, painted terracotta, 3 feet 9-1/2 inches x 6 feet 7 inches, found in the Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri (Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia in Rome) — […]

Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Rome)

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, folio 7 recto from the Vienna Genesis, early 6th century, tempera, gold and silver on purple vellum, 12-1/2 x 9-1/4" (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna) — […]

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well, Vienna ...