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This embroidery has been cut from a larger frieze, designed for Morris & Co. by Philip Webb and William Morris in around 1860 (see William Morris Gallery A209).

Webb was primarily an architect, notably designing Morris' Red House, but was also a gifted draughtsman with a particular interest in the natural world. As a young boy, he studied the illustrations of Thomas Bewick, whose remained evident throughout Webb's artistic output. William Morris would often ask Webb to draw the animals within his designs for wallpapers, tapestries and textiles, recognising his superior skill. See for example 'Trellis', Morris's first wallpaper design (William Morris Gallery BLA472), and 'The Forest', a large tapestry woven at Merton Abbey in 1887, which also incorporates a peacock into its design alongside Morris's swirling acanthus leaves. Here we see Webb's peacock surrounded by gleaming golden grape vines designed by Morris.

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'Peacock and Vine' embroidery - Philip Webb and William Morris - Google Arts & Culture

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This embroidery has been cut from a larger frieze, designed for Morris & Co. by Philip Webb and William Morris in around 1860 (see William Morris Gallery A209). Webb was primarily an architect, notably designing Morris' Red House, but was also a gifted draughtsman with a particular interest in the natural world.

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Trees and undergrowth - Vincent van Gogh - Google Arts & Culture

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The play of the sunlight falling through the foliage onto the forest floor gave Van Gogh an opportunity to experiment with innumerable variations of green.…

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Explore John Constable's painting, 'The Leaping Horse' - Google Arts & Culture

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One Hundred Famous Views of Edo “New Fuji in Meguro” - Utagawa Hiroshige - Google Arts & Culture

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Fujizuka, located on the left, was called Shin-Fuji (New Fuji) to distinguish it from another mountain nearby of the same name. It was built as a mini Moun…

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American Sherman M4 tank moves past another gun carriage which slid off icy road in the Ardennes Forest during push to halt advancing German troops in what was to become known as the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of WWII .

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Battle Of The Bulge - George Silk - Google Arts & Culture

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American Sherman M4 tank moves past another gun carriage which slid off icy road in the Ardennes Forest during push to halt advancing German troops in what was to become known as the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of WWII .

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In Normandy, Monet did not only paint tourist sights such as the famous rock formations of the Porte d'Aval and the Aiguille. Here he chose a marginal motif and made it spectacular by means of perspective. Similar to a photograph, the grassy edge of the cliff is in sharp focus, while the surface of the sea, the sky, and the cliffs of the bay in the distance are blurred.

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Edge of the Cliff at Pourville - Claude Monet - Google Arts & Culture

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In Normandy, Monet did not only paint tourist sights such as the famous rock formations of the Porte d'Aval and the Aiguille. Here he chose a marginal motif and made it spectacular by means of perspective.

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The motif in Two People is one of the simplest of all of Munch's motifs relating to the theme of love.
We see the characteristic shoreline with the large rocks at Aasgaardsstrand, a woman dressed in light clothing and a man in dark clothing with his back to us. She is looking out to sea, he is half turned towards her.
Munch made several graphic variations of the motif, all with the point of departure in a painting which was lost in a shipping accident in 1901.
Munch had an experimenting approach and developed his own techniques, which had important consequences for the picture's expression.

In order to simplify the printing process for woodcuts, he sawed up the woodblocks. The individual parts were then rolled out with different colours and then put together again like a jigsaw puzzle before being put through the printing press. In this way Munch had made a multicoloured print in just one single operation.

This woodcut from 1899 is printed from one block sawn into three parts: the shore and the man in one part, the woman in another part, and the sea in the third part.
The expression in the motif has thus become further simplified and concentrated. In her strict, closed form the woman seems isolated and unavailable to the man who appears to be approaching her.
The motif has also been called The Lonely ones.

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Two People: The Lonely Ones - Edvard Munch - Google Arts & Culture

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The motif in Two People is one of the simplest of all of Munch's motifs relating to the theme of love. We see the characteristic shoreline with the large r...

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This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877. Though some of his friends appear in the picture, Renoir's main aim was to convey the vivacious and joyful atmosphere of this popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre. The study of the moving crowd, bathed in natural and artificial light, is handled using vibrant, brightly coloured brushstrokes. The somewhat blurred impression of the scene prompted negative reactions from contemporary critics.

This portrayal of popular Parisian life, with its innovative style and imposing format, a sign of Renoir's artistic ambition, is one of the masterpieces of early Impressionism.

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Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Auguste Renoir - Google Arts & Culture

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This painting is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877. Though some of his friends appear in the picture, Renoir's main aim was to convey the vivacious and joyful atmosphere of this popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre.

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A Walk at Twilight - Vincent van Gogh - Google Arts & Culture

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This is the last painting Cézanne made in the small French village of Montgeroult before returning to his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, where he remained until his death. Cézanne painted the hillside scene from direct observation, as he felt strongly that "pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good." He also believed that "when out-of-door scenes are represented, the contrasts between the figures and the ground are astounding and the landscape is magnificent." Indeed, the geometric ochre planes of the buildings -boldly outlined in blue-emerge in focus from the loosely rendered foliage. As the road bends down the hill, it shifts and ultimately is subsumed by the greenery, which is actually composed of a striking array of colors.

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This is the last painting Cézanne made in the small French village of Montgeroult before returning to his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, where he remained until his death. Cézanne painted the hillside scene from direct observation, as he felt strongly that "pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good."

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Solemn magnificence and perfect solitude made Caspar David Friedrich's painting of the Watzmann the epitome of Romantic depiction of mountains. Brought close to the viewer as if through a telescope, the summit of the Watzmann seems in its shining, almost glass-like clarity to be in immediate reach, apparently near enough to touch and at the same time distant, like a symbol of divine majesty. In compositional terms the bright mountain grows out of a single, highly variegated motion. Its pyramidal form culminates in the radiant whiteness of ice, a visual concept that Friedrich had already evolved a year previously in his famous painting Sea of Ice: The Wreck of Hope (Hamburger Kunsthalle). Friedrich put The Watzmann on show in 1825 at the Dresden Art Exhibition, probably in reaction to a major work under the same name by Ludwig Richter that was displayed there the year before, based on Josef Anton Koch's famous Schmadribach Waterfall (Neue Pinakothek, Munich). Friedrich rejected Richter's narrative approach: landscape painting had been "closer to its aims than it is at present ... when piled-up objects, one next to the other, one behind the other and one above the other, overburden the picture, and I think are meant to lend opulence," was one of his statements on art. Friedrich, who never travelled to the Alps, painted The Watzmann on the basis of a watercolor study by his pupil August Heinrich and his own sketches made on journeys through the Harz and Riesengebirge mountains. The motif of the rock formations in the foreground follows a drawing of the Trudenstein at the Hohnekopf near the Brocken mountain done on 28 June 1811. In 1820 Friedrich had already depicted the anvil-like rock on the right in his landscape of the Riesengebirge Landscape with Rising Fog (Neue Pinakothek, Munich). In 1824, a year before The Watzmann, Friedrich showed a view of Montblanc (formerly in the Nationalgalerie, lost in the war) with an almost identical format at the Dresden Academy Exhibition. As with The Watzmann, for this work he used drawings by a friend and pupil, in this case Carl Gustav Carus.

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Solemn magnificence and perfect solitude made Caspar David Friedrich's painting of the Watzmann the epitome of Romantic depiction of mountains. Brought close to the viewer as if through a telescope, the summit of the Watzmann seems in its shining, almost glass-like clarity to be in immediate reach, apparently near enough to touch and at the same time distant, like a symbol of divine majesty.

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Cypresses - Vincent van Gogh - Google Arts & Culture

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Mural by Banksy - Banksy — Google Arts & Culture

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The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today it is the site of the Papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescos that decorate the interior, and most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo.
During the reign of Sixtus IV, a team of Renaissance painters that included Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, created a series of frescos depicting the Life of Moses and the Life of Christ, offset by papal portraits above and trompe l'oeil drapery below. These paintings were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483 Sixtus IV celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel for the Feast of the Assumption, at which ceremony the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

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The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity.

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This plate was once part of the Large Book of Designs which Blake printed in 1796 for the miniature painter Ozias Humphrey. The design possibly dates back to a pencil drawing of 1780 (Victoria and Albert Museum), the date inscribed on the plate for Albion Rose. Blake executed the same subject in about 1804 as a black and white etching and engraving, to which he added the inscription 'Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc'd the dance of Eternal Death'. The inscription recalls lines from Blake's illuminated book, Milton, a Poem, begun in 1803, and from Milton's own work, Samson Agonistes (1671).

The figure of Albion, a personification of humanity and of Britain, is freeing himself from the shackles of materialism.

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This plate was once part of the Large Book of Designs which Blake printed in 1796 for the miniature painter Ozias Humphrey. The design possibly dates back to a pencil drawing of 1780 (Victoria and Albert Museum), the date inscribed on the plate for Albion Rose.

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Among the Sierra Nevada, California - Albert Bierstadt - Google Arts & Culture

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This altar-piece dating from c. 1570/75 was painted by Tintoretto alone, without assistance from his studio. The depiction of Mary with a crown of stars above the sickle moon as the Woman of the Apocalypse and Immaculata, appearing to the Evangelists as if in a vision, is typical of Counter-Reformation veneration of Mary.

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Mary with the Child, Venerated by Two Evangelists - Tintoretto - Google Arts & Culture

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Idle Hours - William Merritt Chase - Google Arts & Culture

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God

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And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand (Apres cela je vis descendre du ciel un ange qui avait la clef de l'abime, et une grande chaine en sa main) - Odilon Redon - Google Arts & Culture

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This connects to community and love of others. This represents not only Art, but Love, and Nature as well.

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Over the course of his career, Eugène Boudin regularly painted the colorful regattas that took place on the Normandy Coast and were major tourist attractions. In this work, the ships in the harbor at Deauville are festooned with colorful flags that twist and turn in the wind. The festival boat race takes place in the foreground. Boudin was called the "king of the skies," and here he wonderfully evokes the shifting movements of the clouds. Close examination reveals that the inscription "Deauville Aout 95" ("Deauville, August 95") and the signature at bottom left (in a darker color) were applied by the artist at different times.

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Boats Decorated with Flags in the Port of Deauville (Bateaux pavoisés dans le bassin, Deauville) - Eugène Boudin - Google Arts & Culture

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Over the course of his career, Eugène Boudin regularly painted the colorful regattas that took place on the Normandy Coast and were major tourist attractions. In this work, the ships in the harbor at Deauville are festooned with colorful flags that twist and turn in the wind.