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Winged Figure (1913) by Frederick Andrew Bosley (American, 1881 – 1942), oil on canvas, 36 x 35 inches, Vose Galleries of Boston
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Winged Figure (1913) by Frederick Andrew Bosley (American, 1881 – 1942), oil on canvas, 36 x 35 inches, Vose Galleries of Boston
Eos
Artist: Evelyn De Morgan (English, 1855-1919)
Date: 1895
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Icarus
Artist: Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)
Date: ca. 1890
Style: Symbolism
Medium: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Collection: Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
Description
In Greek mythology Icarus follows a son of the craftsman Daedalus, who is imprisoned in Crete. To escape, Daedalus builds wings of feathers and wax for both of them, instructing Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. Ignoring this advice, Icarus flies too high, the wax melts, and he plunges to his death in the sea.
An Allegory of Virtue
Artist: Unknown; Attributed to: Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian, c. 1489-1534)
Date: c. 1550-1560
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mr. and Mrs. John Custance
Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738 - 1820)
Date: 1778
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, United States
Peter I in the Battle of Poltava
Artist: Johann Gottfried tannauer (German, 1680–1733–37)
Date: c. 1724-1725
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Description
The Battle of Poltava was the largest battle of the Northern War between Russian forces under Peter the Great and the Swedish army of Charles XII. It took place on June 27 (July 8), 1709, six miles from Poltava and ended in the complete rout of the Swedes, marking a decisive turning point in the war in Russia's favor. In the battle, Peter employed a system of redoubts - circular fortifications - that inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.
The Cup of Love
Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)
Date: 1887
Medium: Oil on wood
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Description
Vedder based this painting on one of his illustrations for an 1884 edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, a poem about life’s mysteries. A critic described the picture’s narrative as follows: “On a sculptured sarcophagus, in which lies buried the Past, sits a handsome brown youth... To him comes the woman in fine figure, with a mass of auburn hair, whose back is alone visible... At the right, Dan Cupid looks on, approving.”
Midsummer Night or Iris
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (British, 1836-1893)
Date: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection
Description
Midsummer Night or Iris is a study in iridescence, the effect of light the artist loved best. He loved to experiment with prisms to catch the effect of seeing colored light, and used such effects in this series of pictures. His daughter, Elaine, wrote, ‘My father was always fascinated by colour-iridescence. He would study the prismatic range in the beveled mirrors of candelabra; and if we children found in the big garden a bit of old glass, oxidized by age and weather, we would proudly take it to him, to add to his collection a box which lay open on a table beside his easel (Quoted in J. Sellars, ed., Atkinson Grimshaw. Painter of Moonlight, exh. cat., Harrogate, Mercer Art Gallery, 2011, p. 64).