Pre-Raphaelite / Viktorya dönemi
The Lady of Shalott
Alfred Tennyson’s poem, published in 1832 and 1842, tells the tragic story of a mysterious woman living alone in a tower on the edge…
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Modern sanat, Kübizm öncesi / Erken Kübizm
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is among the most radical works that changed the course of twentieth-century art and opened the way to Cubism. Picasso’s decision…
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19. yüzyıl, tarihsel resim
The Mouth Kiss
In medieval Europe, when a person was killed or seriously injured, disputes were often settled through a compensation system known as weregild rather than…
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Modern sanat, Kübizm sonrası dönem
Weeping Woman
Weeping Woman, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937, is one of the artist’s most powerful responses to the devastation of the Spanish Civil War.…
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Sembolizm, Modern sanat
Separation
Separation is one of Edvard Munch’s most powerful works on emotional rupture, longing, and the pain of human relationships. Created in 1896, the composition…
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Erken Empresyonizm
Woman in the Garden
Woman in the Garden belongs to Claude Monet’s early career and was completed in 1867, when he was only 26 years old. The scene…
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Geç Dönem Goya / Geç 18. yüzyıl
Witches’ Sabbath
Witches did not come to the Sabbath empty-handed; they brought food for their demons as well. In medieval and early modern superstition, it was…
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Post-Empresyonizm
Wheatfield with Crows
Created in July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, Wheatfield with Crows is one of the most powerful and most debated works of Vincent van Gogh’s final…
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19. yüzyıl, Akademizm
Dante and Virgil
Dante and Virgil is one of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s large and highly dramatic compositions from 1850. Its source is Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and the…
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Biedermeier dönemi
Childhood Friends
A reunion between two close friends after a long time apart is one of life’s warmest and most human moments. In Die Jugendfreunde, painted…
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Sembolizm, Geç Viktorya Dönemi
Dream Idyll
In Norse mythology, Valkyries are mysterious female figures who choose the fallen warriors and carry them to Valhalla, the hall ruled by Odin. In…
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Sembolizm
The Horses of Diomedes
The story of the Mares of Diomedes, one of the Twelve Labors of Heracles, is among the most violent and unsettling episodes in Greek…
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Viktorya dönemi
Courage, Anxiety, and Despair: Watching the Battle
James Sant’s 1850 painting Courage, Anxiety, and Despair: Watching the Battle presents war not as a literal battlefield scene, but as an allegory of…
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Rönesans / Kuzey Rönesansı
Children’s Games
Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games presents childhood not as a charming domestic scene, but as a world in which human behavior is replayed on a…
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Geç dönem modern Amerikan resmi
People in the Sun
Edward Hopper’s 1960 painting People in the Sun is one of the most striking works of his late period. At first glance, it appears…
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Sürrealizm
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
The violence, fragmentation, and sense of social collapse brought on by the Spanish Civil War form the historical backdrop of Salvador Dalí’s striking 1936…
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19. yüzyıl, sömürge dönemi gözlem ve seyahat sanatı
Inanda Kraal, Natal
A kraal in the Inanda area offers an important window into settlement patterns in Natal in the mid-19th century and into the everyday world…
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Barok
Judith Beheading Holofernes
The story of Judith and Holofernes comes from the Book of Judith, one of the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. When the Assyrian…
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