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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)The Fighting ‘Téméraire’Oil on canvas1838National Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
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“The painting was thought to represent the decline of Britain’s naval power. The ‘Temeraire’ is shown travelling east, away from the sunset, even though Rotherhithe is west of Sheerness, but Turner’s main concern was to evoke a sense of loss, rather than to give an exact recording of the event. The spectacularly colourful setting of the sun draws a parallel with the passing of the old warship. By contrast the new steam-powered tug is smaller and more prosaic.”
Nationalgallery.org.uk

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The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole
1833-36
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Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)The Death of ElizabethOil on canvas1828

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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)Fishing Boats In A HarborOil on panel185450.8 x 31.8 cm(20” x 12.52”)Private collection

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Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)Pelt Merchant of CairoOil on canvas186950 x 61.5 cmPrivate collection

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Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)Four Dancers, c. 1899Oil on canvas151.1 x 180.2 cmChester Dale Collection
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While Degas suppressed descriptive detail elsewhere in the painting, emphatic dark lines shape the heads and arms, underlining the artist’s formal concerns. Theatrical lighting over the off-stage performers recolors the figures and creates a simple color scheme of complementary red-orange and green hues.
Nga.gov

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Jean Delville
The Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merrill, 1892
Colored chalk
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“Delville became committed to spiritual and esoteric subjects during his early twenties. In 1887 or 1888 he spent a period in Paris, where he met Sâr Joséphin Péladan, an eccentric mystic and occultist, who defined himself as a modern Rosicrucian, descended from the Persian Magi. Delville was struck by a number of Péladan’s ideas, among them his vision of the ideal artist as a spontaneously developed initiate, whose mission was to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.”
Jeandelville.com

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Salvador Dalí
The Sacrament of the Last Supper
1955
Oil on canvas
267 x 167 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich (1848 — 1926)Flying Carpet, 1880Oil on canvas165x297 cmArt Museum of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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In 1880, the rich industrialist Savva Mamontov commissioned Viktor Vasnetsov to illustrate a folk talk about Ivan and the Firebird. The painting represents Ivan returning home after capturing the Firebird, which he keeps in a cage. Ivan is riding the flying carpet in the early morning mist. This work was Vasnetsov’s first attempt at illustrating Russian folk tales and inaugurated a famous series of paintings on the themes drawn from Russian folklore.

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Le Sphinx Parisien, by Alfred Stevens

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Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)Cave CanemOil on canvas188190 x 106 cm(35.43” x 3’ 5.73”)Musee Georges-Garret (Vesoul, France)

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Jack VettrianoThe Singing ButlerOil on canvas28 x 36 inches
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“Jack Vettriano’s “The Singing Butler” is one of the world’s most sought-after works of art. In 2004, the painting was auctioned at Scotland Sotheby’s for a record $1.3 million. One of Scotland’s most popular artists, Vettriano is known for working tirelessly for days on end until a painting is completed.”Art.com

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Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)Pollice VersoOil on canvas1872149.2 x 96.5 cmPhoenix Art Museum
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“Jean-Léon Gérôme was among the most officially honored and financially successful French artists of the second half of the 19th century. His brilliantly painted and often provocative pictures were at the center of heated debates over the present and future of the great French painting tradition. Gérôme’s images marked the popular imagination, directly influencing spectacular forms of mass entertainment, from theater to film.”
Getty.edu

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Ilya Efimovich Efimovich Repin
What Freedom!
1903

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