FIRE FROM THE GODS

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Leonidas at Thermopylae ~ Jacques-Louis David

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Bouquet of Violets ~ Edouard Manet

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Roses in a Champagne Glass ~ Edouard Manet

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Colorful Life ~ Wassily Kandinsky

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Memory ~ Rene Magritte

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Pablo Picasso

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Edouard Manet

Rochefort’s Escape (L’Evasion de Rochefort), c. 1881, oil on canvas, 80 x 73 cm, Musée d’Orsay.

Virulently opposed to the imperial regime, Victor Henri Rochefort founded a political newspaper, La Lanterne, in 1868. The newspaper, which was published in Brussels, was soon banned. In 1873 the journalist was sentenced to prison for his role during the Commune. His spectacular, swashbuckling escape by sea, in 1874, inspired Manet to paint this composition, six years after the event.

This and many other Manet’s masterpieces can be seen in the monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace, Venice, from April 24 to August 18, 2013. The exhibition Manet. Return to Venice includes about 80 paintings, drawings and prints. It has been planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of Manet’s masterpieces.

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Personal Values, 1952 ~ Rene Magritte

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Meditation, 1936 ~ Rene Magritte

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Homesickness, 1940 ~ Rene Magritte

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Mean Eyed Cat… Austin, Texas

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Graveyard in the Tyrol, 1914 ~ John Singer Sargent

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Palazzo Dario ~ Claude Monet

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Water Lily Pond, 1919 ~ Claude Monet

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Portrait of My Father, 1951 ~ Frida Kahlo

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Me and My Parrots ~ Frida Kahlo

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A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love) ~ Frida Kahlo