creme de la creme

// Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams. // E.A. Poe

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The difficult lesson

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Luisa Casati (1881-1957) with a greyhound  by Giovanni Boldini

“Numerous portraits were painted and sculpted by artists as various as Giovanni Boldini, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Adolph de Meyer, Romaine Brooks (with whom she had an affair), Kees van Dongen, and Man Ray; many of them she paid for, as a wish to "commission her own immortality". She was muse to Italian Futurists such as F. T. Marinetti, Fortunato Depero, and Umberto Boccioni. Augustus John's portrait of her is one of the most popular paintings at the Art Gallery of Ontario; “  [SOURCE]

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Augustus Edwin John - The Marchesa Casati

A portrait of Luisa Casati by Augustus John, painted in oil on canvas in 1919. It is currently housed in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto.John had been attached to the Canadian forces as a war artist during the First World War, and was hired to make record of the Canadian participation at the Paris Peace Conference that year. While painting Robert Borden, the Canadian Prime Minister, and other dignitaries, he used the opportunity to join the Parisian artistic and cultural community. He met Casati at a party hosted in Paris by a mutual friend, Maria Ruspoli, and the two became lovers. John did three paintings of the Marchesa, but the AGO one is the best known. (...) The Beat poet and novelist Jack Kerouac, included a number of poems inspired by this picture. [SOURCE]

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Marcello Bacciarelli  - Queen Jadwiga

1768-1771

Bacciarelli  painted a set of portraits depicting nearly all Polish kings, from Bolesław I the Brave to the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław II Augustus who was also Bacciarelli's patron and admirer. Bacciarelli was also keen in painting culturally significant scenes from the history of Poland.

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Władysław Strzemiński - 'Kościół' (church)

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Władysław Strzemiński, "Pejzaż morski"

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Władysław Strzemiński - Bezrobotni (Unemployed)

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Self-portrait in Bretonian hat  by Władysław Ślewiński

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Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting sun

Vincent Van Gogh

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The Morning by Umberto Boccioni, 1909

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Tadeusz Styka (1889-1954), Portret Poli Negri, przed 1930

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Roses by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1819 - 1824)

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Umberto Boccioni - The city rises

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Umberto Boccioni, Self-Portrait, 1908

“Influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death”

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Umberto Boccioni - Three Women (tre donne)

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Umberto Boccioni -  Dynamism of a Cyclist (Dinamismo di un ciclista)

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Charles Courtney  Curran - The Boulder (circa 1905)