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Vincent van Gogh so highly esteemed his bedroom painting that he made three distinct versions: the first, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the second, belonging to the Art Institute of Chicago, painted a year later on the same scale and almost identical; and a third, smaller canvas in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, which he made as a gift for his mother and sister. Van Gogh conceived the first "Bedroom" in October 1888, a month after he moved into his "Yellow House" in Arles, France. This moment marked the first time the artist had a home of his own, and he immediately and enthusiastically set about decorating, painting a suite of canvases to fill the walls. Completely exhausted from the effort, he spent two and a half days in bed and was then inspired to create a painting of his bedroom. As he wrote to his brother, Theo, "It amused me enormously doing this bare interior. With a simplicity à la Seurat. In flat tints, but coarsely brushed in full impasto, the walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and faded red, the chairs and the bed chrome yellow, the pillows and the sheet very pale lemon green, the bedspread blood-red, the dressing-table orange, the washbasin blue, the window green. I had wished to express 'utter repose' with all these very different tones." Although the picture symbolized relaxation and peace to the artist, to our eyes the canvas seems to teem with nervous energy, instability, and turmoil, and effect heightened by the sharply receding perspective.

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Title: The Bedroom

Creator: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Date Created: 1889

Physical Dimensions: 29 × 36 5/8 in. (73.6 × 92.3 cm)

Type: Painting

External Link: The Art Institute of Chicago

Media: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.417

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

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The Gare Saint-Lazare was the largest and busiest train station in Paris. Early in 1877, with help from his friend Gustave Caillebotte, Claude Monet rented an apartment in the nearby rue Moncey and began the first of twelve canvases showing this icon of modernity. He displayed seven of them, including this one, at the third Impressionist exhibition, in April of that year. Legend has it that he arranged to have the standing locomotives stoked with extra coal so that he could observe and paint the effects of belching steam-dull gray when trapped inside the station, white and cloud-like when seen against the sky.

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One of the very few Italian tapestries to survive from before the 1540s, "The Annunciation" depicts the archangel Gabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the Son of God. This is one of the most sacred events in the Christian faith, as it is the very beginning of Christ's life and the Incarnation of the Word. The scene is charged with symbolism: the moment of conception is represented by the dove-standing for the Holy Spirit-in the sky between Gabriel and Mary; the archangel holds a lily, a symbol of purity; and in the near foreground are a guinea fowl and a peacock, both of which signify immortality, and two doves that represent the souls of the blessed. The coats of arms at the top belong to Francesco II Gonzaga (1466-1519), Marquis of Mantua, and were added at an unknown date after the initial weaving had taken place. Such personalization of tapestry acquisitions was typical among noble families.

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Title: The Annunciation

Creator: After a design by an artist in the circle of Andrea Mantegna (about 1430-1506)

Date: 1484/1519

Physical Dimensions: 179.4 × 113.7 cm (70 5/8 × 44 3/4 in.)

External Link: The Art Institute of Chicago

Media: Wool, silk, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, slit, dovetailed and interlocking tapestry weave

Culture/Place: Italy, presumably Mantua

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, 1937.1099

Artist: After a design by an artist in the circle of Andrea Mantegna (about 1430-1506)

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