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A Court in the Alhambra in the Time of the Moors, Edwin Lord Weeks
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A street scene in old Cairo near the Ibn Tulun Mosque – Adrien Dauzats
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A weeping woman by Dutch Artist Rembrandt van Rijn
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A Woman Weeping, also known as A Weeping Woman or Study of a Weeping Woman, is a 1644 oil on oak panel painting, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. It almost exactly corresponds to the kneeling woman in Rembrandt‘s The Woman Taken in Adultery (National Gallery, London) and is thought to be by one of his students after an autograph original study – Kurt Bauch argued this student was Carel Fabritius, whilst Werner Sumowski felt the strongest candidates were Samuel van Hoogstraten and Nicolaes Maes.
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Abandoning Ship by Russian Artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
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Abandoning Ship – Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was an Armenian-Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. He was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
While stormy seas, sinking ships and survivors in lifeboats are common themes in Aivazovsky’s work, the absence of horizon and sky in this painting is very unusual. The tightly cropped composition draws the viewer in and increases the drama of the scene, further enhanced by the striking reflection of light on the waves.
The unusual composition is not the result of the canvas having been cut-down at a later stage but was indeed intended by the artist. A copy of the work, painted by Mikhail Briansky in 1887, only five years after the original, was sold at Sotheby’s London in May 2004. Both its composition and dimensions are identical to the original.
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ADOLF SCHREYER – ARAB WARRIORS ON A ROCKY HILLSIDE
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Adolf Seel – Sultana in the Patio de los Arrayanes, Alhambra
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ALBERTO PASINI – MARKET DAY, A CAPRICCIO OF THE OLD CITY SHORES, CONSTANTINOPLE
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Almond Blossoms by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
Large blossom branches like this against a blue sky were one of Van Gogh’s favourite subjects. Almond trees flower early in the spring making them a symbol of new life. Van Gogh borrowed the subject, the bold outlines and the positioning of the tree in the picture plane from Japanese printmaking.
The painting was a gift for his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo, who had just had a baby son, Vincent Willem. In the letter announcing the new arrival, Theo wrote: ‘As we told you, we’ll name him after you, and I’m making the wish that he may be as determined and as courageous as you.’ Unsurprisingly, it was this work that remained closest to the hearts of the Van Gogh family. Vincent Willem went on to found the Van Gogh Museum.
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