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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:50:21 -0700

Arthur Hacker - Pelagia and Philammon -1877 - Private Collection

Hacker's depiction of Margarito the Courtesan, best described in Alice Major's Saint Pelagia

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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:39:33 -0700

N. Prisekin - Hard Times -1941

War engenders Art: Art of the Soviets from the horrendous Operation Barbarossa

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Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:31:39 -0700

Herbert James Draper - The Kelpie - 1913 - Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool

Draper's sylph-like Kelpie, was indeed a malevolent water sprite enchantress, the nymph Nixie

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:14:46 -0700

Johannes Vermeer - The Procuress - 1656 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Johannes Vermeer caricatured himself into his opus of salacious ribaldry, The Procuress

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:14:16 -0700

George Wesley Bellows - Love of Winter - 1914 - The Art Institute of Chicago

Bellows captures the crisp cheeriness of sunlit wintry outdoors in his Love of Winter

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:10:53 -0700

Jean-L�on G�r�me - Pygmalion and Galatea - 1890 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

G�r�me breathes life into that classic from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Pygmalion and Galatea

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:17:29 -0700

Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street, Rainy Day - 1877 - The Art Institute of Chicago

Caillebotte's great picture of the fin de si�cle ', the agelessly aesthetic Paris Street, Rainy Day

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:01:24 -0700

Max Ernst - The Kiss - 1927 - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Max Ernst drew inspiration from Renaissance masters for his erotic Dadaist opus The Kiss

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:41:23 -0700

Adolph Tidemand - Bridal Journey in Hardanger - 1848 - National Gallery, Oslo

Adolph Tidemand's serene masterpiece iconic of resurgent Norwegian Romantic Nationalism

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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:07:27 -0700

Paul C�zanne - The Temptation of St. Anthony - 1870 - Foundation E.G. B�hrle Collection

C�zanne readied for evolving, greater genius though his self-flagellatory Temptation of St. Anthony