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18th century embroidery.

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Fumi Kaneko as the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Royal Ballet 2023)

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Galop fantastique, 1848

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Composer Biography Drinking Game!

Drink every time:

- The composer has an affair

- The biographer explains the structure of a work but you follow None of it

- The biographer makes an argument regarding the composer's sexuality

- The composer gets a disease or other medical problem

- Someone close to the composer dies (take another drink if the composer writes a piece for them afterwards)

- The biographer explains how a well-known story about the composer likely didn't actually happen

- The composer is quoted as saying something bigoted about a marginalized group of people

- The biographer offers their two cents on an interpretation of a work

- A major scandal surrounding the composer breaks out

- The composer has a kid (drink again if the kid dies before adulthood)

- The word "neurasthenia" is used

- Goethe is mentioned

- The composer goes on a rest cure somewhere out in nature

- The composer breaks off a friendship for petty reasons

- The biographer mentions that important documents surrounding the composer have been lost, censored, or destroyed

- The composer’s spouse saves their whole career

- The biographer attacks another biographer

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Vivaldi on his deathbed in 1741: please, put it into my will that the first movement of my Spring concerto can only be used to indicate fancy settings in cartoons or as hold music for the absolute worst call centres.

Vivaldi's lawyer: Antonio what the FUCK does this mean

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John William Waterhouse (Italian born-British, 1849-1917) The Enchanted Garden, 1917

Illustrates a story from the Decameron where a man magically conjures a spring garden in the dead of winter. Unfinished.

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La grâce, Paul-Jean-Louis Gervais (French, 1859–1944) In the Capitole de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - String Sonata No. 1 for 2 Violins, Cello and Double Bass in G-Major, III. Allegro. Performed by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on period instruments.

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Consecrated sword presented by Pope Innocent XI to John III Sobieski - 'Lion of Lechistan' (1675)

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Details: Ship on Rough Seas, Max Jensen, 1908

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German, 1805-1873

Queen Victoria and Duchesse de Nemours, 1852 (details)

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Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.

Source: Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Melchior Lechter - Blaue Blume Einsamkeit (1892–93)

The present work is a particularly fine example of Lechter's Symbolist works. His so-called mood pictures deal with human emotions, although they are often mysterious and not easily interpreted. Lechter has lent the work a sacred character through various attributes and compositional elements: the symmetrical structure and the static stillness of the woman are reminiscent of ancient representations of saints. The laurel wreath in her hair is traditionally a symbol of artistic fame, or of art renowned in itself. The woman's nudity symbolises her purity. Her large eyes look to the “Ehemals und Einstmals” (days of yore) as Lechter himself poetically formulated it. They probably point to the rapture, the contemplation of art, which also goes hand in hand with solitude. The title of the painting, “Blaue Blume Einsamkeit” (translated: Blue Flower of Solitude) also refers to an important symbol of Romanticism: the “blue flower”, a motif from a novel by Novalis. (source)

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Hermit in the Colosseum (1790) by Hubert Robert.

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Spesso tra Vaghe Rose from Il Tamerlano - La Morte di Bajazet (Vivaldi Antonio, 1735).

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