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The wings of Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern. [1] In 1898, the painting was bought from the Royal Academy exhibition through The Chantrey Bequest, a public fund for purchasing modern art bequeathed by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, R.A. [2] The Lament for Icarus was subsequently awarded the gold medal at the Exposition ...
The Barbarians (painting) The Beakful; List of wildlife works of art by Frank Weston Benson; Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger)
Illustration for Paradise Regained. The Miltonic verse (also Miltonic epic or Miltonic blank verse) was a highly influential poetic style and structure popularized by John Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
The lines are strong and well marked, the expression serious and pensive. The attribution to Masaccio, however, is disputed. [4] 1424 — Sant'Anna Metterza (Tempera on panel, 175 cm × 103 cm) — Masaccio's first collaboration with the older and already-renowned artist, Masolino da Panicale (1383/4-c. 1436).
The picture has been owned by the National Gallery in London since 1863 and is regarded as a masterpiece of British art. The painting depicts a natural philosopher, a forerunner of the modern scientist, recreating one of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments, in which a bird is deprived of air, before a varied group of onlookers. The group ...
Twentieth-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of the paradise lost. He painted three large triptychs (the others are The Last Judgment of c. 1482 and The Haywain Triptych of c. 1516) that can be read from left to right and in which each panel was essential to the meaning ...
The Guardian of Paradise (German: Der Wächter des Paradieses) is an 1889 painting by the German artist Franz Stuck. It shows a glowing angel with bird-like wings and a flaming sword. It was Stuck's first large oil painting. It was entered into the 1889 art exhibition at the Glaspalast in Munich, where it won a gold medal and 6000 Mark.
It is housed in the Mauritshuis art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The painting depicts the moment just before the consumption of forbidden fruit and the fall of man. Adam and Eve are depicted beneath the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, where various fruits grow. On the opposite side the tree of life is depicted, also laden with fruits.