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The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, [1] is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. [2] Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration for this painting on a night journey through the Black Country. This has led some scholars to hold that the rapid ...
The paintings were Martin's last major works before his death in 1854. They were exhibited to the public from the time of his death until the 1870s to advertise the sale of prints from engravings of the works, being displayed in galleries and exhibition halls all over Britain, in New York in 1856–57 and in Australia in 1878–79. It has been ...
A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. [1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. [ 2 ]
A "Doom painting" or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgement in a medieval church. This is the moment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls to send them to either Heaven or Hell .
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Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph. [2] [3] The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health some two months before his death, which is generally accepted as a suicide.
Stars including Chadwick Boseman, Willie Garson and Norm Macdonald all fought private battles with cancer. Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016.
Directed by Nick Cassavetes, the movie is based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks book of the same name and follows an elderly man, played by James Garner, reading aloud from a notebook to a woman in a ...