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Dinner in the Garden (1903), by Henri Le Sidaner

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Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)Twilight in the WildernessOil on canvas1860413 x 258 cm
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“What I find fascinating is that everybody who looked on this magnificent scene and published a reaction seems to have a different interpretation. Some homed in on the eagle, up there on the left, and saw a symbol of American power. Some noticed where the branches cross, and saw a suggestion of Christianity. Others, noting the absence of human beings, claimed the pines as our surrogates - standing tall and strong, as the frontier expects. I must say that the pines most evident are somewhat twisted and scruffy, which gives the landscape a remarkable air of conviction; this is no ideal place, but truly what Church looked down upon. The one interpretation that I find sustainable hinges on the painting’s date. In 1860, the menace in the sky would have been all too real. The Civil War would soon break out, and the blood-red tide would spread throughout the land.”
Artchive.com

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Henri Le Sidaner
Henri Le Sidaner is best known for his intimate landscapes and his skill at capturing the atmospheric effects of light. His paintings convey an noble reverence for nature in all its beauty. He enjoyed going out into the French countryside and sketching from nature but normally worked from memory. Having started his career as a realistic painter, during the 1890s he gravitated towards pointillism and the symbolist. He infused his art with a fresh sense of harmony and joyfulness.

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Hans Makart (1840-1884)Dame mit Federhut in RückenansichtOil on canvas1874-187582 x 135 cmGermanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg, Germany)

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Hans Makart (1840-1884)OpferszeneOil on canvasc.1880186 x 332 cm
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Austrian painter. He studied under Piloty in Munich and from 1869 worked in Vienna, where he was enormously successful and became a leading society figure. His pictures, often vast in size, were characteristically of mythological, historical, and allegorical subjects, treated in the manner of grand opera or Hollywood epics in an exuberant, somewhat Rubensian style. They were produced in a huge studio that was one of the sights of Vienna (Makart liked to paint in front of visitors). His work had great influence in Austria and Germany, notably on the early work of Klimt, but his reputation soon declined after his death.
The Oxford Dictionary of Art

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Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)Tamaca PalmsOil on canvas1854

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The Girl I Left Behind Me, by Eastman Johnson

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VAN GOGH, Vincent Self-Portrait1889Oil on canvas25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (65 x 54 cm)

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Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Vision of youth Bartholomew
1889–1890
Oil on canvas
160 х 211
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Bartholomew is one of the most venerated Russian saints, whose image as a youth became for the artist a symbol of hope for the revival of Russian spirituality. Nesterov uses an episode of St. Sergius hagiography. Unlike his brothers, Bartholomew found it difficult to learn his ABC’s. One day, when looking for his herd that had gone astray, the youth found himself in woods where he met a monk praying under an oak. On learning that the boy was failing at his ABC’s, he used the sacrament of communion to help Bartholomew achieve the blessing of knowledge. The folding icon that the old man holds in his hand and that resembles a cathedral, a church in the distance are the symbols of the saint’s future deeds. The youth’s fragile figure matches the thin young trees, brittle bladed of grass, the young pine tree that shoots up by his feet. The dark figure of the old man, by contrast, looks mysterious as it appears from behind the ancient oak. His face is hidden, a luminous halo around his head. It seems as if it was the contemplation of broody autumn landscape that brought this vision to the artist’s mind.
Tretyakovgallery.ru

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Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905)The Flute ConcertOil on canvas

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Roberto Ferri
Le delizie infrante
Oil on canvas
300x214

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Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940)The Knight of the Holy GrailOil on canvas1912319 x 238 cm

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Russ Mills
Luci_four
2009

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Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)Portrait Of Mrs. Siddons As The Tragic MuseOil on canvas1784

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Colin-maillard
1751
Oil on canvas
117 × 91 cm

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