Everyday chores and pastimes, from Dutch maids to the spectacle of the Spanish bullfight.
Cheating husbands and wives, and murderous heretics; images of guilt and retribution.
Flora and fauna; whether symbolic or documenting one-time curiosities from foreign lands.
Self-indulgence and miserly greed, from Bacchanalian feasts to the miser’s gold coins.
Corot’s rural idylls, Turner’s sublime seascapes, and the faded grandeur of ancient Rome.
Géricault’s startled horse to Goya’s evil witches; representations of terror and fear.