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Tag Archives: Painting
1864: Bird and Weeds
Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, France, Landscapes, Léon Bonvin, Painting, Weeds
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1650: Very Tempting
Joos van Craesbeeck: The Temptation of St Anthony (c. 1650)
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, Belgium, Christianity, Joos van Craesbeeck, Painting, Religion, Temptation of St. Anthony
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1876: Marsh
Martin Johnson Heade: Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts (c. 1876–1882)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Art, Landscapes, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, The Sun, USA
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1776: The Resurrection of the Universal Friend
Born in Rhode Island in 1752, Jemima Wilkinson would become, at the age of 25, the first American-born woman to found a religious group—following what she claimed was her death and resurrection. She abandoned her birth name, asked to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Gender, Jemima Wilkinson, LGBTQ, Painting, Portraits, Quakers, Religion, The Universal Friend, USA, Women
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1871: Llyn Nant-y-Clif
Charles Leslie: Welsh Landscape, Llyn Nant-y-Clif, North Wales (1871)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Art, Charles Leslie, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Wales
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1918: No Bigger than a Bumble-Bee
There are some curious old stories told in the Scotch Highlands about dreams. It was believed that when asleep the mind or soul of the sleeper leaves his body and goes far afield, and when he awakes he recalls his … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900's, 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Dreams, Great Britain, Landscapes, Oddities, Painting, Scotland, Water, William Lakin Turner
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1922: Hercules
John Singer Sargent: Hercules and the Hydra (1922-1925) (source) After the goddess Hera makes Hercules lose his mind and murder his own wife and children, he prays to Apollo for guidance and it told by the god’s oracle to atone … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, 2nd Century, Art, Greece, John Singer Sargent, Mythology, Painting, Pseudo-Apollodorus, USA
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1964: Bastard
Women cheat, women suffer. They used to be attractive—so they smooth away their age. I shout mine aloud because I was never attractive, because I shall always have my baby hair. It’s taken me two and a half hours to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Art, Autobiography, Books, France, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, LGBTQ, Painting, Prose, Richard Baker, USA, Violette Leduc, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Women
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1887: Lake
John Olson Hammerstad: Lake Michigan (c. 1887)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Lakes, Norway, Painting, Ships & Sailing, USA
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1793: Charity
William Beechey: Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy (c. 1793)
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Tagged 18th Century, Art, Painting, Portraits, Poverty, William Beechey
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