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A Jew and a Muslim playing chess in al-Andalus.
El Libro de los Juegos, 13th century.
El Libro de los Juegos, 13th century.
A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, late 1200s.
Ludwig Deutsch, Partie de jeu d'échecs (Shatranj), 1896
Hernan Bas (American, b. 1978), The accidental chess game, 2015. Acrylic, colored pencil, chalk, and oil pastels on paper, 30 x 22 in
A depiction of Moorish noblemen playing chess.
Alfonso X's Libro de los Juegos ("Book of Games", 1283 AD)
Alfonso X's Libro de los Juegos ("Book of Games", 1283 AD)
Ignmar!
hess Problems, late 1300s, from the Book of Chess Problems. Northern France
Alexei Solodovnikov. Young Chess-Player. 1951
John Lavery, "The Chess Players"; oil on canvas (1929)
Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture, 1907
John Singer Sargent
The Chess Game, 1907
The Chess Game, 1907
The Chess Players by Thomas Eakins (1911)
Likely by Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, possibly Nicolaas Henneman, The Chess Players; salted paper print [c.1845]
![Likely by Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, possibly Nicolaas Henneman, The Chess Players; salted paper print [c.1845]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DibkWF-VsAA2tS5.jpg "Likely by Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, possibly Nicolaas Henneman, The Chess Players; salted paper print [c.1845]")
Albertus Pictor, Death playing chess, wall painting in a church in Täby, Sweden, 1480
Photograph of Duchamp playing chess, circa 1930s
Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht playing chess
Showgirls playing chess
Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972
Gianni Toso Venice
About 1981
Flameworked glass figures; cut and assembled glass
The pieces in Gianni Toso’s Chess Set, made about 1981, are Jewish and Roman Catholic worshippers. The kings are a rabbi and a bishop.
About 1981
Flameworked glass figures; cut and assembled glass
The pieces in Gianni Toso’s Chess Set, made about 1981, are Jewish and Roman Catholic worshippers. The kings are a rabbi and a bishop.
