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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Bite 159: Leonardo da Vinci - The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist ('The Burlington House Cartoon'), c. 1499-1500

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The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon '), c. 1499-1500, charcoal o...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Bite 158: Leonardo da Vinci - Drapery Study for an Angel, c. 1495-8

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  Drapery Study for an Angel , c. 1495-8, ink on paper, 21.3 x 15.9 cm, Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, UK. Skin beneath cloth, finely ...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Bite 157: Ejnar Nielsen - Man and Woman, 1917-19

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  Man and Woman , 1917-19, Oil on canvas, 305 x 177 cm, National Gallery of Denmark "Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancin...
Saturday, 28 January 2012

Bite 156: Ejnar Nielsen - And In His Eyes I Saw Death, 1897

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And In His Eyes I Saw Death , 1897, Oil on canvas, 188 x 137 cm, National Gallery of Denmark
Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Bite 155: Antonin Mercié - Memory, 1903

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Memory , 1903, marble, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek A cenotaph to lost time, the grieving figure of memory herself is lost in reverie, carved win...
Saturday, 21 January 2012

Bite 154: Edward Burne-Jones - The Hours, 1882

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The Hours , 1882, Oil on canvas, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK Seven maidens, each symbolic of a period of the day, act as melancholy person...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Bite 153: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - The Bed, 1893

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The Bed , 1893, oil on cardboard, 51.3 x 70.4 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when ...