This section is dedicated to the real life sources or inspirations for the paintings found in the Thief games
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Still life (primroses, pears and promenates)
Henri Fantin-Latour
Oil paint on canvas
1866, French
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Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz
Oil paint on wood
Vanitas, 1628, Dutch
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The Penitent Magdalen ("The Wrightsman Magdalen")
Georges de la Tour
Oil paint on canvas
1638-1642, French
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The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugene Delacroix
Oil paint on canvas
1846, French
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Mark Lizotte
American
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Pilate Washing his Hands
Mattia Preti
Oil paint on canvas
1663, Italian
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Portrait of a Woman, called the Marchesa Durazzo
Anthonis van Dyck
Oil paint on canvas
1622-1625, Flemish
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Mark Lizotte
American
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Lachrymae
Lord Leighton Frederic
Oil paint on canvas
1895, English
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Reincarnation 1
Mark Lizotte
American
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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (Study)
John Constable
Oil paint on canvas
1825, English
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Extensive Pastoral Landscape
Marco Ricci
Gouache on kidskin
? 1676–1730, Italian
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Soul God 1
Mark Lizotte
American
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God of Good 1
Mark Lizotte
American
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Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey
Oil paint on oakwood
1490, Netherlandish
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Bartolommeo Bonghi
Giovanni Battista Moroni
Oil paint on canvas
1554, Italian
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Illuminated manuscript detail of a miniature of the building of the Tower of Babel,
taken from f. 15v of Bible historiale, the early version.
Paints on vellum
1291-1294, French
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Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo da Vinci
Oil paint on wood
1483-90, Italian
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Markers on paper
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Probably adapted from Henri Fantin-Latour’s Reclining Nude (Oil paints on
canvas, 1874, French) and Ludwig Knaus’s Faun and goat (Oil paints on canvas,
1868, German)
Robb Waters?
Markers on paper
American
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Adaptation of The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain Duccio di Buoninsegna
The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain - Duccio
Tempera paint and goldleaf on poplarwood
1308−1311, Italian
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Comparisons
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Oil paint on canvas
1892, Dutch (English denizen)
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Comtesse de Cambacérès
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Oil paint on canvas
1895, French
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Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Aout (August Court)
Limbourg brothers (Herman, Jean, and Paul)
Illumination from a book of hours, tempera on vellum
1411-16, Dutch
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Portrait of a Man
Andrea Mantegna
Tempera paint on hardboard transferred from canvas transferred from wood
1460-1470, Paduan/Italian
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The Wife of Hasdrubal & Her Children
Ercole de’ Roberti
Tempera paint on poplarwood
1480-90, Italian
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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, a.k.a., Raphael
Oil paint on wood
1515, Italian
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Porträt der Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, Gattin des Marchese Nicola Cattaneo
Anthonis Van Dyck
Oil paint on canvas
1623, Flemish
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The Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Oil paint on oakwood
1565, Netherlandish
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St. Paul and St. Mark (right half of the diptych) from The Four Apostles
Albrecht Dürer
Oil paint on lindenwood
1526, German
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Apollo and Marsyas or Apollo Flaying Marsyas
Jusepe de Ribera
Oil paint on canvas
1637, Spanish
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Fin de collation (“A Dessert”)
Willem Claeszoon Heda
Oil paint on wood
1637, Dutch
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Still-Life with Pheasant
Jean Siméon Chardin
Oil paint on canvas
1750s, French
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Horse Frightened by a Lion
George Stubbs
Oil paint on canvas
1770, English
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Portrait of Madame Récamier
Jacques-Louis David
Oil paint on canvas
1800, French
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Symphony in White, No. 1 (Girl in White)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Oil paint on canvas
1862, American