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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life , in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia ...
Our English Coasts, by William Holman Hunt Self-portrait with his wife, Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painting Henrik Wilhelm Peill , at and by Alexander Roslin Aiding a Comrade , at and by Frederic Remington
The Nightmare (1781), by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always ...
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Leonardo's painting deteriorated rapidly and is now known from a copy by Rubens. [118] Mona Lisa or La Gioconda c. 1503–1516, [d 8] Louvre, Paris. Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, the laughing one. In the present era, it is arguably the most famous painting in ...
The title of the painting, which is known in English as Mona Lisa, is based on the presumption that it depicts Lisa del Giocondo, although her likeness is uncertain. Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote that " Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."
The Kiss (German: Der Kuss) is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. [3] It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what scholars call his "Golden Period". [4]