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Golden hour on the plains of Colorado! Taken next to the airport [OC] [3326 x 3628] @cojoslin - Author: spiider_bro on reddit

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These factual paintings are considered to have metaphorical meaning too ... the various expressions on the figures around the bird in the air pump indicating concern over the possible inhumanity of the coming age of science...

These paintings represent a high point in scientific enquiry that began to undermine the power of religion in Western societies. ... Some ten years later, scientists would find themselves persecuted in the backlash to the French Revolution of 1789. ... The politician and philosopher Edmund Burke, in his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), tied natural philosophers, and specifically Priestley, to the French Revolution; he later wrote in his Letter to a Noble Lord (1796) that radicals who supported science in Britain "considered man in their experiments no more than they do mice in an air pump". In light of this comment, Wright's painting of the bird in the air pump, completed more than twenty years earlier, seems particularly prescient.

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, Joseph Wright

Medium: oil,canvas

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So I went through the Chicago Institute of Art high off my ass...

This baby was also high.

(Virgin and Child, workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, 1460)

So was this baby

(Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Agnolo Bronzino or Follower, 1527-30)

Touchdown Jesus was there.

(Shadow of Death, William Holman Hunt, 1870-73)

Art is gay!

(Sketch for Oath on the Rütli, Henry Fuseli, 1779)

(Anthropomorphic Tower, Salvador Dali, 1936)

(The Golden Age, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1875)

Going to an art museum is more fun than beating a donkey!

(Boy on a Ram, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes to 1786)

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Skógafoss at 5am [OC][2160x1728] - Author: viratyosin on reddit

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Lacada Point, Causeway Coast Ireland [3977 x 5966] [OC] - Author: Harz_marz on reddit

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─ Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian [details]

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Il Sodoma

Saint Sebastian

1525

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Missionary being eaten by a jaguar (by Noé León, 1907)

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Maybe my beach bod won't be ready for summer...

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“raven” by Helene Hurt is - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Bruarfoss waterfall, Iceland. [OC] [3024 x 4032] - Author: Paki-Man-And-JBG on reddit

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Baker Oostwaert and his wife, 1658, Jan Steen

Medium: oil,panel

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Only one rainbow matters during #PrideMonth and apparently it's all white. @skittles can we talk?

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Chidinma Nnoli

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Another one I took during my 24 hours in Iceland. Dyrhólaey (Black Sand Beach) [OC] [5809x3692] - Author: PristineBuy1145 on reddit

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