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soft marble sculptures appreciation post. 

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Bellerophon Fighting the Chimaera by Johann Nepomuk Schaller (1821)

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La Nymphée by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1878)

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1768, oil on canvas)

Notice the different reactions of the people in the painting- the girls are scared for the bird, the men in front seem deep in thought and the head scientist breaks the 4th wall

Wright was intimately involved in depicting the Industrial Revolution and the scientific advances of the Enlightenment.

The painting is regarded as a masterpiece of British art

First Floor National Gallery London

#national gallery london #art #painting #oiloncanvas #josephwrightofderby #science experiments #eighteenth century #enlightenment #industrial revolution

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A game of Croquet (Édouard Manet, 1876)

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The beauty of women

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Modern academia.

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My eyes ache

With the weight of unshed tears

You are my home

Do you not understand?

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|knowledge|

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Please-

Consider me a dream.

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Saint-Saëns

Danse macabre, Op. 40

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|Life in the forest|