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10 Masterpieces of the Musée d’Orsay
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877.Though some of...
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Edmé Bouchardon | Cupid cutting his bow from the club of Hercules, 1750
Cupid cutting his bow from the club of Hercules (L'Amour se taillant un arc dans la massue d'Hercule) is a marble statue created by the sculptor Edmé Bouchardon (French sculptor, 1698-1762 in 1750 and...
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Claude Monet | Woman in the Garden, Sainte-Adresse, 1867
This is a very early Impressionist work by the group's leader, Claude Monet.The sunlight which floods the paintings of the Impressionists - who did most of their painting out of doors, directly from...
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Maria Martinetti | Orientalist painter
Maria Martinetti (1864-1921) was an Italian painter. She was a student of Gustavo Simoni.She lived and exhibited in Italy and France.In 1890 she moved to the United States.She is known for her genre...
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Great paintings from the Clark Art Institute
Adrien Moreau | Contemplation, 1873The solitary woman in Moreau's painting gazes down toward a duck pond.Her contemplative expression -and the painting's title- suggest that she has chosen this...
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Henri Lebasque | Afternoon Tea on the Terrace in Sainte-Maxime, 1914
Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) first visited the French Riveria in 1906 at the suggestion of his friend Henri Manguin.In 1924, Lebasque relocated to the region to permanently take advantage of its...
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Vincent van Gogh | The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières, 1887
The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières exemplifies some of the radical directions emerging from the paintings Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) completed in Paris.In March 1886, Van Gogh left his native...
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Pinacoteca di Brera | 6 Masterpieces
The collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera includes some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian and foreign art from the 13th to the 20th century.The works are displayed on the first floor of the...
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Anaïs Nin: "L'amore non muore mai di morte naturale"..
L'amore non muore mai di morte naturale.Muore perché noi non sappiamo come rifornire la sua sorgente.Muore di cecità e di errori e tradimenti.Muore di malattia e di ferite,muore di stanchezza, per...
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Fred Appleyard (1874-1963)
Fred Appleyard was a British artist known for his landscape paintings, portraits, classical subjects and allegorical compositions.He had 41 works exhibited during his lifetime by the Royal Academy and...
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Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883-1950)
Ethel Léontine Gabain, later Ethel Copley, was a French-Scottish artist.Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club.While she was known for her...
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Ivan Malinowski | Adesso è il momento..!
Adesso è il momento di fare ciò che ti piace.Non aspettare lunedì, non aspettare domani.Non fare allungare davanti a te la carovanadi sogni calpestati. Non aspettare.Non frenarti per paura o viltà.Non...
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Anton Chekhov: "Only one who loves can remember so well"
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / Антон Павлович Чехов (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high...
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6 Famous Sculptures of the Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Galleria Borghese Museum houses and displays a collection of ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries.Among...
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Sphinx of Naxos
The Sphinx of Naxos, also Sphinx of the Naxians, now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, is a 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and...
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Hayley Lever| Impressionist painter
Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher.His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer...
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Zinaida Serebriakova's 140th Birthday
Russian-born French painter Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova / Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва (1884-1967), born on this day in 1884, 140 years ago, was the First Famous Female Russian Artist.Zinaida...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Guernsey, 1883
Between late summer and early autumn of 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent over a month on the Channel Island of Guernsey, lodging at no. 4 of George Road, St. Peter Port.The beach of Moulin Huet, and...
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Detlev Nitschke, 1935 | Impressionist painter
The German artist Detlev Nitschke is mainly known for his picturesque scenes and outdoor paintings (plein air), which he developed into designs for calendars and maps.In 1954 he graduated from school...
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Vincent Van Gogh | A Lane near Arles, 1888
A Lane Near Arles (Allee bei Arles) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, while he was living in Arles.It depicts a lane surrounded by trees running between the fields outside Arles, France.A Lane...
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5 Masterpieces from the Hermitage
The State Hermitage Museum / Государственный Эрмитаж has been open to the public since 1852.It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin...
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Lisi Martin, 1944 | Children Illustrator
Spanish illustrator Lisi Martin was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.She is the younger of 2 children, having an older brother.She was a quiet child and claims to have started drawing at the age of 4 as a...
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Théophile Deyrolle | Genre painter
Théophile-Louis Deyrolle (16 December 1844, Paris - 14 December 1923, Concarneau) was a French painter, illustrator and ceramicist.He came from a family of entomologists and naturalists who owned a...
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William Shakespeare | All the world's a stage / Tutto il mondo è un palcoscenico
"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It (believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio...
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Sarah Jarrett | Pop Surrealism painter
Sarah Jarrett is a collage artist and illustrator based in Norfolk, UK.She is fascinated and inspired by the human relationship with nature and the natural world.She loves plants, flowers, and...
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