The Massacre of the Innocents
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John Singer Sargent (1866 - 1925)
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October 29, 1929 Black Friday
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Venus de MiloAphrodite, known as Venus de Milo, marble sculpture, 2nd century BCE; in the Louvre, Paris.
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Gustav Klimt – Pallas Athena (1898)
The ancient Greek goddess of wisdom glares powerfully out of Klimt's visionary fin de siecle masterpiece that mingles ancient mythology and modern psychology. In Klimt's Vienna, artists, writers and not least the doctor of dreams Sigmund Freud were fascinated by the power of the unconscious and the magnetism of sexuality. Athena here is not so much a divinity of reason as a primitive archetype of female authority and strength
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By Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510 CE), commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?).
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Detailed view of Venus, from the Renaissance artwork "Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli (created 1483 - 1485 CE). Tempera on panel. Provenance: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici family collections. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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An international object of desire, Mata Hari was a dancer, a spy, and everyone who knows about her casts her in a different light. She’s been described as a courtesan, a feminist, an espionage wannabe, and a victim of the military’s need to create an enemy.
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