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Le Triomphe d'Alexandre Le Grand, Gustave Moreau, 1875-1890, Oil on Canvas

Taken at the Musée Gustave Moreau on 29/01/2025

Across the Common on a Winter Evening (1885) by Childe Hassam

‘Svanen’ by Hilma af Klint, c. 1914.

Unicorn (Maerten de Vos, 1572)

Source details and larger version.

Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, from Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse by Willy Pogany (1920)

Oedipus and Sphynx, Gustave Moreau, 1864, Oil on Canvas, part of the MET permanent collection and on view in gallery 800

Peter Falk / Columbo

Art by Peter Falk

Madonna Pietra Degli Scrovigni

Artist: Marie Spartali Stillman (British, 1844–1927)

Date: 1884

Medium; Paper; watercolour; gouache

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

Madonna Pietra Degli Scrovigni (My Lady Stone) is a character from a poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The lady is described as beautiful and inspiring great passion, but 'utterly frozen… no more moved than is the stone'. The poem plays off the interaction of winter and summer, dark and light, yellow and green, themes which Stillman explores in this watercolour. She uses imagery of dead leaves, blackthorn and hellebore to symbolize coldness and winter, and the model gazes out at the viewer steadily and calmly.

Woman at a Dressing Table (1873) by Gustave Caillebotte