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That was a turbulent year for Churchill: that spring he resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty after the failure of the Dardanelles campaign and quit his job

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This one was largely ignored when it was first shown at the Impressionist exhibition (in 1880). However now it's one of Forain’s most famous works. I like the floor.

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The father of candid photography in Japan and famous Leica user. After his death, the prestigious Ihei Kimura Award was established in his honor, cementing his legacy.

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Bunny was the first Australian to receive an honourable mention in 1890 at the Salon for the painting Tritons (1890). He also exhibited works internationally, including in Australia, America and England. Sea Idlyll, exhibited in the Royal Academy, was bought by Alfred Felton, who gave it to the National Gallery of Victoria in 1892. This was to be the first painting of Bunny's that an Australian gallery obtained.

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Check this out: a group of ordinary people gathered in a beech grove, listening to a sermon outdoors. No grand church, no dramatic religious setting - just nature, sunlight, and a bunch of villagers paying attention to a preacher. Menzel loved these kinds of everyday moments, and here he turns something completely ordinary into something almost poetic.

One of the coolest things about the painting is the light. You can feel how the sun filters through the beech leaves, creating these soft highlights and shadows across the whole group. It makes the gathering feel intimate and peaceful, like everyone is quietly connected to both the speaker and the forest around them.

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Scientist and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. The holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He published The Pencil of Nature (1844–1846), which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives and made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.

A polymath, Talbot was elected to the Royal Society in 1831 for his work on the integral calculus, and researched in optics, chemistry, electricity and other subjects such as etymology, the decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history.

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The episode is often called the Sacrifice of Isaac, although in the end Isaac was not sacrificed.

See also:

Abraham and Isaac, Rembrandt, 1634

Sacrifice of Isaac , Caravaggio, 1603

An angel restrains Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, Rubens, c. 1614

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According to Plutarch, Lycurgus considered education “the most important and most beautiful task of a lawgiver.” The idea sounds great. But...He established a system in which girls engaged in physical exercises alongside boys, forgetting about “softness, indulgence, and other feminine whims.” Husbands and wives met only at night and briefly, never seeing each other in daylight. Feelings of possessiveness and jealousy were alien to them, so for a Spartan it was considered normal to temporarily give his wife to another man so that she might conceive a child by a worthy citizen(lol).

Also:
* Around the 9th century BCE (though the date is uncertain), founded Sparta’s rigid social and political system.
* Established the Spartan constitution, dividing power between two kings, a council of elders (Gerousia), and an assembly of citizens.
* Banned gold and silver money, encouraging equality and discipline.
* Introduced communal meals (syssitia) and military training for boys (the agoge), which turned Sparta into a warrior society

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Our man Jules helped to transmit the influence of the English landscape tradition to France. He was one of the leading painters of the French Barbizon school, which preceded Impressionism. During the last two decades of his life he concentrated on marine painting, acquiring a house at Cayeux-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast where he stayed annually for this purpose.

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Gustave has been called the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century.
In 1857 Napoleon III commissioned him to "record the principal scenestaken from each of the camps of the Guard, and portraits of the officers, generals and superiors, French and foreign, who had traveled to the camp, be they commanders or guests of the emperor". The photographs were put into albums that the emperor presented to each general.

Here troops just execute a maneuver behind a field bulwark. The Imperial Guard's presence for six weeks was conceived of as a military showplace during which the Guard executed eleven defense maneuvers of increasing complexity. But still...you know the result.



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Venus, Cupid(her son) and the guys. You can see sort of transition from a more classical Baroque to a Rococo.
About the same age as Piazzetta and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, Ricci represents a Cortonesque style.

He was also the uncle of Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in landscape painting.

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The piece was originally sold to the Whitney for $2,000.
It was purchased with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney just a few months after it was painted, and would go on to become a part of the Whitney's founding collection.
Despite the title, Hopper has said that the painting was not necessarily based on a Sunday view. The painting was originally titled Seventh Avenue Shops. The addition of "Sunday" to the title was "tacked on by someone else".

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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Tragically, this man died at only 26. Despite his short life, he produced around 130 paintings and "The Brook in Winter" is considered one of his masterpieces.
He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and by the age of 25 was regarded as one of the most promising landscape artists of his generation

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Hiroyuki Sanada is lowest rank samurai. He's also a single father. To protect a lady’s honor, he accepts a duel and fight with a wooden stick (vs katana)

One of the greatest films from Yoji Yamada

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Palermo was struck by a deadly outbreak of the plague. At the same time the relics of Saint Rosalia were discovered. The inhabitants saw this as a miraculous sign(classic) and the saint soon came to be venerated as the patroness of the city.

Anthony van Dyck happened to be in the city during this period, on his way from Genoa to Naples. At the request of local authorities and the clergy, the artist created several paintings(and this is one of them) intended to inspire hope and prayer in the troubled city.

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