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Ophelia by ElfGoblin on Flickr.
By J. Hayter From the book, The Heroines Of Shakespeare. 1858
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Edward Petre Novello (1813-1836) "Clara Novello" (1833) Oil on canvas Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England
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Max Ernst 1891-1976
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"Holy Conversation" 1921
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Lee Miller, autoportrait, 1929
« L’Harmonie, c’est la condition des contraires, et non l’écrasement des différences » Cocteau
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John William Waterhouse, The Crystal Ball, 1902
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Time and Sleep
Artist: Evelyn de Morgan (English, 1855-1919)
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Location: Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, England
Night floats through the evening sky, his red robes reminiscent of the sunset, and his billowing cloak darkening the sky behind him. He floats arm in arm with Sleep, who gently scatters poppies onto the earth beneath, from the armful of flowers that he has taken from his girdle. (The Victorians used laudanum as a sleeping draught, which was made from tincture of the opium poppy.) Both figures appear relaxed, with closed eyes, as if already half-asleep. The composition for the painting was inspired by Botticelli’s Birth of Venus where Zephyr and Chloris fly with limbs entwined as a twofold entity: the ruddy Zephyr (Greek for “the west wind”) is puffing vigorously; while the fair Chloris gently sighs the warm breath that wafts Venus ashore. All around them fall roses–each with a golden heart–which, according to legend, came into being at Venus’ birth.
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The art of Swedish painter and illustrator John Bauer (June 4th, 1882 – November 20th, 1918)
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The Ball. New Year’s Eve party at Villa Airoldi. Palermo, Photo © Letizia Battaglia, 1985
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A Saint Reading Scriptures Bernardino Luini (1480 - 1532)
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Saint Mary Magdalene. Master of the Feigen Adoration (active Siena, first quarter of the 16th century). Oil on panel.
It is known that the artist had knowledge of the likes of il Sodoma and Girolamo Genga, to whom this panel was previously given. It was probably through these artists that he would have acquired knowledge of Leonardo and his followers, whose influence is evident here in the drawing of the Magdalene’s facial features and the characteristic Leonardesque smile.
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