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Main gallery: Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum.
Famous works
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Alfred Jewel, 9th-century
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Edward Burne-Jones, Music, 1877
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The Brighton Pierrots, 1915, by Walter Sickert
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The "Two Dog Palette" from Hierakonpolis
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The Messiah Stradivarius violin
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Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, by Edouard Manet
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The Narmer Macehead
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Studies of the Heads of two Apostles and of their Hands, by Raphael
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Statue of Sobek, the crocodile god, from the pyramid temple of Amenemhat III
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Acme and Septimius, c. 1868, by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
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The Apotheosis of Germanicus, a copy after an antique Cameo painted in 1626 by Peter Paul Rubens
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The Return of the Dove to the Ark, 1851, by Sir John Everett Millais
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A Greek tragic mask dating to the 1st century BC or 1st century AD.
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A lady singing, gouache painting with gold on paper 1740-1745, Rajasthan, artist unknown
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Jeanne Holding a Fan, an oil on canvas painting by Camille Pissarro, c.1874
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The Holy Family with St John the Baptist, brush and brown wash on panel by Michelangelo
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Tombstone, the doctor Claudius Agathemerus and his wife Myrtale, from Rome, about AD 100
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A death mask of Oliver Cromwell
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Portrait of John Ruskin by John Everett Millais
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The Mantle of Chief Powhatan, dating to the 17th century
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The Abingdon Sword, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century
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The Annunciation, attributed to Paolo Uccello
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Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières, by Vincent van Gogh
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A Garden in Montmartre by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Young Englishwoman, a costume study by Hans Holbein the Younger
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A self-portrait by Samuel Palmer
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A coin of Domitianus II
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Egyptian Mummy Portrait
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The Virgin and Child, by Bernardino Pintoricchio
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Early Bronze Age Cycladic art figurine, 2800–2300 BC.
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The Kish tablet
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The Sumerian Kings List, dating to approximately 1800 BC