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The Rue Mosnier with Flags Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet - The Rue Mosnier with Flags

To commemorate the recent Exposition Universelle, itself a celebration of luxury and prosperity, the French government declared June 30, 1878, a national holiday. The holiday, called the Fête de la Paix (Celebration of Peace), also marked France/

Rue Mosnier Decorated with Flags, with a Man on Crutches Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet - Rue Mosnier Decorated with Flags, with a Man on Crutches

Men

Villagers on Their Way to Church Simon Bening

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Simon Bening - Villagers on Their Way to Church

Parchment

As the local parish church prepares for services, villagers and rural peasants make their way down the path. In the distance, fields, gently rolling hills, buildings, and groves of trees give shape to the landscape. The candlelit procession inside the church, as well as the candles held by the appro...

Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry Paul Cezanne

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Paul Cezanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry

Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, United States)

Scenes

A Masterpiece of Post-Impressionism

Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry is a stunning oil painting by French artist <...

[Ibsamboul. Spéos de Phré]John Beasley Greene

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John Beasley Greene - [Ibsamboul. Spéos de Phré]

The Stone Breakers Gustave Courbet

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Countryside

Discover the masterpiece of Realism, The Stone Breakers, by Gustave Courbet.

Size and Media

The original size of The Stone Breakers was 170 cm × 240 cm (65 in × 94 in) and it was completed in oil on canvas. Unfortunately, the painting is now destroyed.

Style and Date

The ...

The Trinity in Glory Titian Ramsey Peale Ii

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Titian Ramsey Peale Ii - The Trinity in Glory

Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)

La promenade Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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(1870)

La Promenade, painted in 1870 by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is a captivating oil on canvas master...

Getty Center (Los Angeles, United States)

Rue Mosnier with Road Menders Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet - Rue Mosnier with Road Menders

Fitzwilliam Museum (United Kingdom)

Roads

Jeanne (Spring)Edouard Manet

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A chic young woman in a day dress with floral accents holds a parasol against a background of exuberant foliage. She looks straight ahead, a picture of poise and detachment even as she seems fully aware of the viewer/

Sculptor’s Model or Votive Offering Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Sculptor’s Model or Votive Offering

Sculpture

Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)

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Georges Pierre Seurat - Grassy Riverbank

Grassy Riverbank Georges Pierre Seurat

Forests
Rivers

Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, Musee d'Ors Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet - Le dejeuner sur l-herbe, Musee d-Ors

214 x 269 cm, (1863)

7b. Recognition of the True Cross (detail)Piero Della Francesca

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Piero Della Francesca - 7b. Recognition of the True Cross (detail)

Frescoes

San Francesco (Arezzo, Italy)

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The central figure in this painting is Otto Dix himself, and there is no beauty to the scene. Standing in the middle of a brothel, he is holding a telephone in his left hand. The right side of his face is in shadow, while a left-looking glance sidles towards us somewhat menacingly. The only people h...

Von der Heydt Museum (Germany)

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Simon Bening - Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours

Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours Simon Bening

Parchment

Simon Bening painted this pair of miniatures back-to-back on a single leaf of a book of hours. The miniatures originally appeared at the bottom of two calendar pages that listed church holidays. Each page was devoted to a particular month, and each miniature depicts an activity associated with the m...

View of the Fernwalk, Jamaica Marianne North

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Marianne North - View of the Fernwalk, Jamaica

Oil

View by Marianne North of a road near Bath, Jamaica, with cabbage palms, bread fruit, cocoa, and coral trees. She visited Jamaica in 1871, and rented a 20-room house in the old deserted botanic garden. There was a magnificent view of a steep wooded valley and meadows from her veranda, while all arou...

Marianne North Gallery (Richmond, United States)

Leaf from the Morgan Picture Bible Danish Unknown Goldsmith

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Leaf from the Morgan Picture Bible

Gold Leaf

The Morgan Picture Bible stood over a foot tall and contained more than 380 scenes from the Old Testament, extending from the story of Creation to the reign of King David. Though it originally consisted exclusively of pictures with no accompanying text, three sets of captions were later added to the...

Child in a Straw Hat Mary Stevenson Cassatt

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Mary Stevenson Cassatt - Child in a Straw Hat

Shown from the waist up, a young girl wearing a slate-gray dress and straw hat stands with her hands clasped in front of her in this vertical portrait painting. The girl has light, peachy skin, and her cheeks are lightly flushed. Her body faces us but she tips her head slightly to her right, our lef...

Study of a Mourning Woman Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Michelangelo Buonarroti - Study of a Mourning Woman

Pen	Study Women

Artist Information

Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, and architect who is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. Born in 1475 in Caprese, Italy, Michelangelo began his artistic training at a young age, studying under the tutelage of renowned pai...

Havana Citizen / Citizen in Downtown Havana Walker Evans

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Walker Evans - Havana Citizen / Citizen in Downtown Havana

Except for certain morning shopping hours, Havana is still a largely male city. The tide of pedestrians along narrow Obispo Street, with its cavernous cool dark stores, or under the Prado portals, wall-papered with magazines and multicolored lottery tickets, the idlers in the open air cafes--nearly ...