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Death to digital

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Henrik Uldalen (2012).  Oils.

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Harbor With Villa Medici (1637) - Claude Lorrain

Odysseus Returning Chryseis to Her Father (1644) - Claude Lorrain

View through gates of Qarth, Game of Thrones (2012)

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Themistocles Drinks the Poison (1887) - Henri-Camille Danger (1857-1937)

Prix de Rome 1887

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The Combat of Mars and Minerva (1771) - Joseph-Benoit Suvee (1743-1807)

The Children of Niobe Killed by Diana and Apollo (1772) - Pierre-Charles Jombert (1748-1825)

The Death of Seneca (1773) - Jean-Francois Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)

The works which beat out Jacques-Louis David’s first three attempts to win the Prix de Rome from the French Royal Academy.  Peyron’s painting has been lost to history and only preliminary drawings survive.

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The Combat of Mars and Minerva (1771)

Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe (1772)

The Death of Seneca (1773)

Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus’ Disease (1774)

Jacques-Louis David’s (1748-1825) entries for the Prix de Rome at the French Royal Academy, which he finally won on the fourth try.

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Mihaly Dobozi and his Wife (1861) - Bertalan Szekely (1835 - 1910)

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Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching The Battle (c. 1850) - James Sant CVO RA (1820 - 1916)

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Contemplation - James Sant CVO RA (1820 - 1916)

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Study for The Ordeal of the Bier (1879) - Jeno Gyarfas (1857-1925)

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Twisting (1915) + 2 from the Swedish Sauna series c. 1906-1909 - Anders Zorn (1860-1920)

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Portrait of a Lady (1895) - Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

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Petition to save the Slav Epic

Quite recently there’s been news about the paintings of Alphonse Mucha. The city of Prague wants to send Mucha’s large paintings of the “Slav Epic” (his masterpiece which took 18 years to paint) on tour to Asia for two years. The issue is that Mucha’s relatives and art historians/conservators say the paintings will be damaged if they do go on tour (they have been in the past). Mucha’s grandson is now suing the city of Prague to stop it.

So right now there’s an online petition to save Mucha’s Slav Epic from going on tour so it does not get damaged. The petition is in Czech (from “The Association for the Conservation and Development of the Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic”) but there is an English version at the top of the site menu… it might make a difference if people from around the world signed. It would show how important Mucha’s art and preservation of it is…. When the paintings were donated to the city of Prague in 1928 the city was supposed to build a gallery exclusively for this series of paintings but never did (that was the only condition they had) :/ So if you’re passionate about art, saving art and art nouveau, here is the petition. (there’s 7,905 signatures right now)

New York Times article for more info…

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Reconciliation of The Montagues and Capulets Over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet & Nude Study (1855) - Lord Frederic Leighton RA

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La Douleur (1898) - Emile Friant

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In Bed The Kiss (1892)

The Bed (1893) - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (1880-91) - Ilya Repin

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The Matchmaker (1625) - Gerard von Honthorst