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Torii Kotondo, Beauty Combing her Hair, 1933 © The Art of Japan

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GENTILESCHI, ARTEMISIA (1625-26) María Magdalena penitente [Óleo sobre lienzo] Museo de Arte Kimball, Fort Worth, TX, Estados Unidos

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HŌITSU, SAKAI (ca. 1800) Paulownias y Crisantemos [Biombo de dos paneles; tinta y color sobre papel dorado] Museo de Arte de Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Estados Unidos

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MIRGA-TAS, MALGORZATA (2022) Re-encantar el mundo (diciembre) [Re-enchanting the world (December)] [Acrílico y textil sobre lienzo, técnica mixta] Galería Nacional de Arte de Varsovia La Zachęta, Varsovia, Polonia

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RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE (1872) Le Pont-Neuf [Óleo sobre lienzo] National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, Estados Unidos

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RETZSCH, FRIEDRICH AUGUST MORITZ (1831) Die Schachspieler [Los jugadores de ajedrez][Óleo sobre tabla] private property.

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VELÁZQUEZ, DIEGO RODRÍGUEZ DE SILVA Y (1655-1660) Las hilanderas o la fábula de Aracne [Óleo sobre lienzo] Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

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MAELLA, MARIANO SALVADOR (1805-1806) El Otoño [Óleo sobre lienzo][Museo Nacional del Prado]

[artssie]

The Angel's Message (early 1900's) by George Hillyard Swinstead

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GISBERT PÉREZ, ANTONIO (1888) Fusilamiento de Torrijos y sus compañeros en las playas de Málaga [Óleo sobre lienzo] Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, España

[artemlegere]

Cymon and Iphigenia

Artist: Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896)

Date: 1884

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

The painting is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. It depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath. Nahum felt it "emphasized the transforming power of beauty." Boccaccio set the story in the springtime; Leighton preferred the ambience of a more autumnal feel. The artist was very precise about the mood he wanted to reflect by describing the specific setting of the time of day as "the most mysteriously beautiful in the whole twenty-four hours". He wished to capture the overall impression of drowsiness just before drifting to sleep especially on long hot days as night begins to fall. The painting is set when there is the "merest lip of the moon" showing on the horizon above the sea and the atmosphere is "haunted still with the flush of the after-glow from the sun already hidden in the west."

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PATINIR, JOACHIM (1520-1524) El paso de la laguna Estigia [Óleo sobre tabla] Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

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Landscape with Psyche and Jupiter (1610) by Peter Paul Rubens

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BERNINI, GIAN LORENZO (1621-1622) El rapto de Porserpina [Il Ratto di Proserpina] Galería Borghese, Roma, Lacio, Italia

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BRUEGEL EL VIEJO, PIETER (1562-1563) El triunfo de la Muerte [Óleo sobre tabla] Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

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Title: The Return of the Crusader Artist: Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880) Date: 1835 Genre: historical painting; literary painting (illustration of the poem "Kreuzfahrers Einzug" by Karl Immermann) Period: Romantic Movement: Düsseldorf School  Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 66 cm (25.9 in) high x 64 cm (25.1 in) wide Location: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany

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WATTS, GEORGE FREDERICK (1875) Caos [Chaos] [Óleo sobre lienzo] Tate Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido