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Giovanni Segantini
AVE MARIA A TRASBORDO
1886
84x65
oil on canvas

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Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)Un Bain Maure - Femme Turque au Bain, No.2Oil on canvas1874-1877Lost

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Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)Black BashiBazoukOil on canvas186966 x 81 cmPrivate collection

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Paul Delaroche
Oliver Cromwell opening the coffin of Charles I
1846
Oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle - Hamburg

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Caravaggio (1571-1610)The Inspiration of Saint MatthewOil on canvas1602186 x 292 cm(6’ 1.23” x 9’ 6.96”)Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi (Rome, Italy)
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Caravaggio (1571 – 1610) was a brilliant, temperamental Italian artist whose technique of selectively illuminating subjects surrounded by deep shadows became a cornerstone of Baroque painting. Loathing idealistic portrayals of religious figures, Caravaggio substituted a dramatic, contemporary realism that sparked both adoration and outrage. The monumental beauty of his work sharply contrasted with the disarray of his life, culminating in his murder of a man over a tennis wager. Caravaggio’s works strongly influenced many celebrated artists, including Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez.
Art.com

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VASNETSOV, Viktor
Central Panel from the Threshold of Paradise
Mixed media
295 x 482 cm
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

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Edgar Degas
Group of Dancers
1905
Pastel on paper
Private collection

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Salvador Dalí
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
1951
Oil on canvas
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“I had a ‘cosmic dream’ in which I saw this image in color and which in my dream represented the ‘nucleus of the atom.’ This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I considered it ‘the very unity of the universe,’ the Christ! In the second place, when, thanks to the instructions of Father Bruno, a Carmelite, I saw the Christ drawn by Saint John of the Cross, I worked out geometrically a triangle and a circle, which ‘aesthetically’ summarized all my previous experiments, and I inscribed my Christ in this triangle.”
Dali-Gallery.com

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Thomas Moran, Moonlit Seascape. 1902

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Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)Young Christian MartyrOil on canvas1855
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The Nazarenes painted quasi-devotional portraits of each other and their ideal wives or longed-for lovers, often doomed to early death from common diseases of the time. Perhaps the most extreme expression of this sentiment occurs in a series of religious pictures painted by Delaroche after the death of his wife, Louise Vernet, in 1845. In the finest and strangest of these, the Young Christian Martyr, her features float on the dark waters of the Tiber, lit by the halo of sainthood.
Web Gallery of Art

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Victor Michailovitch Vasnetsov (1848-1926)A Knight at the Crossroads

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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900)Battle of Cesme at NightOil on canvas1848193 x 183 cmPrivate collection

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