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The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

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Fire Dance (1889) by Joseph Tomanek † Le Villi (1906) by Giuliano Bartolomeo

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me when i have to work to make money & live

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under the moonlight

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animals in art: snakes

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creatures in art: ghosts

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it's all in the eyes

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Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

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Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki - Dirce chrześcijańska (Christianskaja Dirceja v cirke Nerona; Christian dirce in the Circus of Nero), 1897, Warsaw National Museum

Signature, date and location: H.SIEMIRADZKI PINX. A.D.MDCCCXCVII / .ROMA.

The painting was most probably inspired with the work of Histoire des origines du christianisme, Volume IV Antichrist by French historian and philosopher Ernest Renan.

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The Feast of Silenus by Alfred Philippe Roll (1871)

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OPHELIA (details)

But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

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Nicolas Poussin - L'Enlèvement des Sabines (The Abduction of the Sabine Women), 1633-4, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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Jacob Verreyt - River Landscape, unknown date, Kulturhistorisches Museum im ehemaligen Kloster zum Heiligen Kreuz (Rostock)

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Claude Monet - Nymphéas, harmonie blanche (White Water Lilies), 1899, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

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Almond Blossoms, Vincent van Gogh 

Van Gogh enjoyed the most productive era of his career during his time in Southern France, referring to Arles as “the Japan of the South” due to its abundance of sunlight and flowering trees. He first arrived in March 1888, as the fruit trees began to blossom, and immediately began painting at an almost unprecedented rate: “I am up to my ears in work for the trees are in blossom and I want to paint a Provençal orchard of astonishing gaiety.” This particular work, Van Gogh’s most famous painting of almond blossoms, was created for another special reason: the birth of his nephew, the son of his brother Theo. It’s one of the rare Van Gogh paintings in which you can see hope, joy, and serenity – which makes it all the more special.

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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton - Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

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Edwin Landseer - The Monarch of the Glen, 1851, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.