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| Caravaggio, The Cardsharps |  | 1595
Notice how the trick is spoiled, but the young man doesn't see it. Irony at work for the viewer in this allegory of the game of love! | |
| George de la Tour, Fortune Teller |  | 1632-1635
Like Cardsharps, the young man, lured in by the pretty woman, has his pocket picked and watch chain snipped!
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| Il Pensionante del Saraceni, The Fruit Vendor |  | c. 1615-1620
At the Detroit Institute of Arts | |
| Jacob Jordaens, Job |  | c. 1620
At the Detroit Institute of Arts | |
| Rembrandt van Rijn, Syndics of the Cloth Guild |  | 1662
Note the movement in the painting, the notion of the viewer as being part of the scene. | |
| Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer |  | 1635-1638 | |
| Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son |  | 1659 | |
| Rubens, Autumn, the Chateau de steen |  | 1636 | |
| Rubens, Daniel in the Lion's Den |  | 1615 | |
| Rubens, Judgment of Paris |  | 1635-1638
Note the very different idea of beauty here. | |
| Ruisdael, Jewish Cemetery |  | 1657
An allegorical landscape where the abandoned tombs, ruined church and storm clouds show the transience of all earthly things while the rainbow suggests the persistence of hope.
At the Detroit Institute of Arts
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| Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring, |  | 1665 | |
| Vermeer, Young Woman at the Virginals |  | 1650s |
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