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William Holman Hunt - The Ponte-Vecchio, Florence [1867]
William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was a founder member of the group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. After they disbanded in the 1850s Hunt was the only member to continue to pursue...
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Francis Picabia - Portrait of a Blonde [c.1942-43]
This painting depicts one of the actresses who was in vogue at the time, Madeleine Sologne (born Madeleine Simone Vouillon). Her cinematic career began in 1936 with a small role in La Vie est à nous by...
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Georgia O'Keeffe - Poppies [1950]
In her treatment of form, O’Keeffe hovered tantalisingly between representation and abstraction throughout her long career. Flower paintings such as this became perhaps the best-known of her signature...
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Vincent van Gogh - The Postman [1889]
[The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia - Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 55.2 cm]
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Gerard Terborch - The Pressing Invitation to Drink
[Sold for $162,400 at Bonhams, London - Oil on panel, 26.5 x 20 cm]
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Liu Liu - Print Era [2008]
Lui Liu was born in March 1957 in North China and went to Canada in 1991. Speaking both Chinese and English fluently, Lui Liu possesses superb painterly techniques, his unique language that finds a...
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Guercino - Saint Peter Freed by an Angel [c.1622]
Guercino (Cento, February 8, 1591 - Bologna, December 22, 1666) was an Italian Baroque painter. Guercino was remarkable for the extreme rapidity of his executions: he completed no fewer than 106 large...
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Keith Vaughan - Pupitre [1945]
The young man at his desk is in the process of making a drawing. He looks up as if for inspiration, perhaps into a mirror, but more likely towards an image of a muse. Echoes of the ancient Greek myth...
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Rüstem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul
Perhaps the most famous aspect of Rüstem Pasha Mosque, however, which still draws crowds today, is the extensive use of Iznik tiles. These tiles were produced by potters in the city of Iznik, whose...
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Andrea Solario - Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Solario (Italian, Milan, 1465 - Milan, 1524) worked in Milan after 1493, and in 1507 was invited to France, where he decorated a chapel at Château Gaillon for Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, Archbishop of...
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Paul Cézanne - Seated Peasant [c.1892-96]
The mood and palette of this pensive figure study relate it to Cézanne's celebrated series of paintings showing men playing cards. This particular individual does not appear in any of those pictures,...
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Claude Monet - Seine at Asnières [1873]
Asnières, long ago made part of Paris, was an independent community in the mid-19th century, popular for fishing and boating. As the nearest town to Paris, it often served as a place of recreation. In...
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Shepherd’s Song [1891]
From 1884 to 1886, Puvis executed mural decorations for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyons that are allegorical representations of the origins of art. This painting is one of several variants of a...
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Louis Vallée - Silvio with the Wounded Dorinda [c.1651]
Louis Vallée's subject is drawn from Giovanni Batista Guarini's late 16th-century tragicomedy Il Pastor Fido, a pastoral play that glorified arcadian life and had far-ranging effects in art and...
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Théo van Rysselbergh - Sisters of the Painter Schlobach [1884]
[Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain de Liège - Oil on canvas]
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