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detail of painting by françois martin-kavel

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The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond and Path by the Water), 1900, Claude Monet

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View from the Cliff at Pourville, Bright Weather, 1882, Claude Monet

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…flower the blood produc’d: Such flowers the deep pomegranate bears, which hides Its purple grains beneath a flexile rind. But short its boast, for the same winds afford Its name, and shake them where they light adhere: Ripe for their fall in fragile beauty gay.

Ovid, The Metamorphoses / Hendrick Goltzius, Adonis Dying, 1609 (detail)

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Landscape with a View of the Sea, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Medium: oil,canvas

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Alexander Keirincx - Allegory of Abundance -

Alexander Keirincx (Antwerp, 23 January 1600 – Amsterdam, 1652) was a Flemish landscape painter who is known for his wooded landscapes with figures as well as his ‘portraits’ of English castles and country houses. After training in his native Antwerp, he worked in Utrecht and ultimately to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. During a period of sojourn in England in the late 1630s he worked on commissions for the English king. He was a regular collaborator of Cornelis van Poelenburch.

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Alexander Keirincx - Hunters in a Forest -

oil on panel, Height: 69 cm (27.1 in); Width: 92 cm (36.2 in)

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Alexander Keirincx (Antwerp, 23 January 1600 – Amsterdam, 1652) was a Flemish landscape painter who is known for his wooded landscapes with figures as well as his ‘portraits’ of English castles and country houses. After training in his native Antwerp, he worked in Utrecht and ultimately to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. During a period of sojourn in England in the late 1630s he worked on commissions for the English king. He was a regular collaborator of Cornelis van Poelenburch.