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Tag Archives: Painting
1989: Drain
Robert Gober: Drain (1989)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, LGBTQ, Painting, Robert Gober, USA
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1890: The Sheepfold
William Trost Richards: The Sheepfold, Easton’s Point, Newport (1890)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Painting, Seascapes, USA, William Trost Richards
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2017: Desperate Measures
Alison Pebworth: Desperate Measures (2017)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Alison Pebworth, Art, Painting, USA, Women
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1821: After Rain
John Constable: Evening Landscape after Rain (c. 1821)
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1900: Family
Carl Fredrik Hill: Family (c. 1900)
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Carl Fredrik Hill, Family, Painting, Sweden
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1886: Methods
The following list of terms used to express diverse modes of divination, with explanations, will be found unusually complete and may interest students of occult science. The expressions have been gathered from various sources : Aeromancy, by appearances in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Food and Drink, Magic, Occult, Oddities, Painting, Raphaelle Peale, USA
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340 AD: Patron Saint of Beekeepers
According to tradition, a swarm of bees settled on the face of the infant St. Ambrose, leaving a drop of honey and thus foretelling the saint’s eloquence—his honeyed tongue. He is the patron saint of bees and beekeepers. A certain … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 4th Century, Ambrose, Animals, Art, Bees, Books, Charles Butler, Christianity, France, Insects, Italy, Jacques I Laudin, Painting, Portraits, Religion, Saints
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1661: Elizabeth Russell
[———–] Russell, always known under the guise or habit of a woman, and answered to the name of Elizabeth, as registered in Streatham parish, Nov. 21, 1661, but at death proved to be a man. He was buried April 14th, … Continue reading
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1912: Little Demons
Richard Tennant Cooper: An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; symbolising the effect of chloroform on the human body (1912); from a series of medically-themed paintings commissioned in 1912 by … Continue reading
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1859: Mondscheinlandschaft
Carl Gustav Carus: Moonlit Landscape (1859)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, Carl Gustav Carus, Germany, Landscapes, Painting, The Moon
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