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Frank Weston Benson's Sunlight is an oil painting that captures the essence of a sunny day. The artist skillfully depicts the sunlight on the girl's clothing, the grass and sea, creating a bright and cheerful atmosphere. A breeze is suggested by Sylvia's billowing dress and the flying ribbon...

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In Greek mythology the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull, was appeased by the annual sacrifice of virgins brought from mainland Athens to Crete. Watts shows the creature gazing out to sea in eager anticipation of his prey; the small bird crushed by his mighty fist symbolises the purity and vulnerability...

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The daughter of former slaves, Ida B. Wells sued the Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern Railway in 1883 after being dragged from her seat for refusing to move to a segregated railcar. Her anger over this incident spurred her to begin contributing articles to black-owned newspapers; she became part o...

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This painting was exhibited in the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1948 along with six other paintings by Jackson Pollock. Pollock belongs to the abstract expressionist movement that developed in the heart of New York after the war. Borrowing from surrealism, there were two types of abstract expressionists...

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Nadar was a journalist, novelist, cartoonist, balloonist, lithographer, and, beginning in 1849, photographer. Like Brady’s establishments in America, Nadar’s Parisian studio quickly became a center for celebrity photography, selling compelling images of the major political and cultural figures of th...

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Throughout his career, Harold Gilman depicted his family and friends. This touching portrayal records his second wife Sylvia (who he had married the previous year) breastfeeding their young son John. She is completely absorbed, as if unaware of her husband’s tender gaze. Gilman renders the immensely...

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In the memories of the journalist Beppe Pegolotti “the ‘Cinciarda’ was a sickly and drunk beggar, the son of a newsagent, with a mild and friendly personality, that the painter had found many times in the inn Da Nello in via dei Servi and who had already been depicted in various poses, sometimes jus...

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Paul Klee fell extremely ill in 1935, during the summers. Shortly after he was diagnosed with a disease known as scleroderma. It’s a condition that causes the skin to tighten and harden. He passed away five years later in Switzerland, without having acquired his Swiss citizenship. Regardless of his ...

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Work consists of 39 dinner place settings of porcelain flatware (fork, knife and spoon), porcelain chalice, and decorated porcelain plate. Each setting is laid out on a separate embroidered textile runner. Thirteen place settings are on each side (48 feet long) of a triangular table draped with a wh...

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A variety of German companies produced doll heads for sale in the United States. Most of these companies were located in the province of Thuringia, a region rich in the kaolin needed for the porcelain clay and rich in the wood used to fire up the kilns. Doll makers found porcelain a suitable materia...

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Artist: Pablo Picasso

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'Luncheon of the Boating Party', or 'Le déjeuner des canotiers' in French, is a stand-out work of French Impressionism by the revered artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paul Durand-Ruel bought this painting in 1923 from Duncan Phillips, his son. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.is currently in ...

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Discover the beauty and intrigue of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Fritza Riedler, 1906 - Österreichische Galerie, Vienna,...

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Avellar was the first signatory of a letter sent in April 1889 to Rui Barbosa, then a republican journalist. He signed the letter with the Paty de Alferes Freedpeople Commission, which tried to enlist the prestige of political leaders to offer education to the children of freedpeople. The group expl...

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