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Old February 20th, 2018 #21
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Wall Tapestry - La Dame à la licorne à mon seul désir - musée national du Moyen Âge (Thermes et hôtel de Cluny, à Paris).
 
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Thomas Cole

The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36.



The Savage State



The Arcadian or Pastoral State



The Consummation of Empire



Destruction



Desolation
 
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The Triumph of Death, or The 3 Fates.

Flemish tapestry (probably Brussels, ca. 1510-1520).

Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The three fates, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who spin, draw out and cut the thread of Life, represent Death in this tapestry, as they triumph over the fallen body of Chastity.

This is the third subject in Petrarch's poem The Triumphs.

First, Love triumphs; then Love is overcome by Chastity, Chastity by Death, Death by Fame, Fame by Time and Time by Eternity.
 
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti



Aspecta Medusa



A Sea Spell



Proserpine



The Day Dream
 
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Edward Hopper



The Long Leg



The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet



The Lee Shore



Ground Swell
 
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Edward Robert Hughes



With the Wind



Portrait of Rosalind



Heart of Snow



Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)
 
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Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben Napoleon's Return from Elba




Vincenzo Camuccini The Death of Caesar
 
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Edward William Cooke



The Pier and Bay of St-Ives Cornwall



Steeple Rock Kynance Cove Lizard Cornwall Low Water



Undercliff at Bonchurch Isle of Wight
 
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Karl Bryullov


Italian Morning


Italian Midday
 
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Very much like the Pre-Raphaelites, meaning that a beautiful woman is faced with virtue.
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/lis...&s=tu&aid=1727
 
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Philip Hermogenes Calderon Morning




Joseph Pierre Olivier Coomans A Neapolitan Beauty




Anna Lea Merritt Portrait of a young lady




Henry Ryland Primavera




Louis Jean-François Lagrenée Melancholy




Sir Joshua Reynolds Theory




Sir Frank Dicksee Miranda
 
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Emilio Sanchez-Perrier



Calm Waters at Chaponval



On the River / Edge at Dusk



On the River Bank



Landscape with Boat and Men



The Boating Party
 
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Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child with Two Saints (Detail)
 
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Francesco Hayez The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
 
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert Sleeping Beauty
 
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Pierre Auguste Renoir Picking Flowers
 
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