
Cats
Cats have long served as popular artists’ muses, taking center stage in paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. They can appear fearsome, as in Peter Paul Rubens’s den of lions. Or they can be cute and funny, as in Cecilia Beaux’s pictures of dainty kitten Sita.
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Dogs
Dogs appear in art as everything from faithful companions and symbols of loyalty and protection to working animals and sporting partners. No painter of canines was more famous than Edwin Landseer. His works were so celebrated that a mastiff breed was named after him.

Sculpture
Sculptures come in many forms—from figures chiseled out of stone to interlocking pieces of metal suspended from a ceiling. They can be made of almost any material: marble, clay, silver, wood, bronze, steel, wax, pâpier-maché, and more.