Caravaggio
(1571 - 1610)
Giuditta e Oloferne
(1598 - 1599)
Oil on canvas - 145 cm × 195 cm
Location: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini, Rome
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Herbert James Draper
(1863 – 1920)
Clyties of the Mist
(1912)
oil on canvas - ?? x ??
Location: ??
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Antonio Ciseri
(1821 – 1891)
The transport of Christ to the sepulcher
(1864 - 1870)
Oil on canvas - 190 cm x 273 cm
Location: Madonna del Sass
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Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
(1860 – 1943)
Paolo Malatesta et Francesca da Rimini aux enfers
(1883)
Oil on canvas - ?? x ??
Location: Musée des beaux-arts de Carcassonne
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Cristofano Allori
(1577 – 1621)
Judith with the Head of Holophernes
(1610 - 1612)
Oil on canvas - 139 cm x 116 cm
Location: Palazzo Pitti
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Vasili Ivanovich Surikov
(Russian, 1848 – 1916)
Young woman at prayer
(1879)
Oil on canvas - 40.7 x 33.5 cm. (16 x 13.2 in.)
Private Collection
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Paul Herrmann
(German, 1864 – 1940)
Zeit: Chronos mit seiner Sense
(1913)
mezzotint and roulette - 56.5 x 43.4 cm. (22.2 x 17.1 in.)
Private Collection
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With what do you fill an empty life?
Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
(1803 – 1860)
The Suicide
(1836)
oil on canvas - 40 cm x 56 cm
Location: Walters Art Museum
“ Here we shall drag them, and through the mournful wood
Our bodies will be hung: with every one
Fixed on the thornbush of its wounding shade. “
-- Inferno, Dante, Canto XIII
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Vilhelm Hammershøi
(1864 – 1916)
The Collector of Coins
(1904)
oil on canvas - 69.5 cm x 89 cm
Location: National Gallery (Norway)
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Karl von Piloty
(1826 – 1886)
Die Ermordung Cäsars (The Murder of Caesar)
(1865)
oil on canvas - ?? x ??
Location: Lower Saxony State Museum
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Carl Heinrich Bloch
(1834 – 1890)
The Sheperds and the angel
(1879)
oil on copper - ?? x ??
Location: ??
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Mikhail Nesterov
(1862 – 1942)
Vision of Youth Bartholomew
(1889 – 1890)
oil on canvas - 160 cm × 211 cm
Location: Tretyakov Gallery
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(1825 – 1905)
The Day of the Dead
(1859)
oil on canvas - 147 cm × 120 cm
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius (via quietlotus)
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Maxim Vorobiev
(1787 – 1855)
Interior of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
(1835)
oil on canvas - 109.5 cm × 150 cm
Location: National Museum in Warsaw
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Antonio Ciseri
(1821 – 1891)
Ecce homo!
(1871)
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