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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/10/2021
Paul Delvaux was born in Belgium, but as his career was developed in the shadow of Nazi Germany, his works contain a distinct sign of anxiety and discomfort.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/08/2021
The Road to Rome (La Route de Rome) is a 1979 painting, depicts a European town square in the twilight, with several women, many of whom are nude or semi-nude.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/07/2021
The Birth of the Milky Way, also known as the Origin of the Milky Way, painted by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has a history behind it.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/06/2021
A huge 20 feet (6 m) wide oil on canvas created by the French artist Gustave Courbet in 1855, is seemingly a mysterious composition and an unrepentantly did ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/05/2021
Housed in the Louvre in Paris, Diana Getting out of Her Bath, a 1742 painting by Francois Boucher, depicts Diana, the Roman goddess, assisted at her bath by ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/04/2021
Phryne, the daughter of Epicles from Thespiae in Boeotia, was born around 371 BC, the year Thebes razed Thespiae, not long after the battle of Leuctra and e ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/03/2021
La Circassienne au Bain, a painting by Merry-Joseph Blondel, is closely associated with the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/02/2021
Housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States, Les Grandes Baigneuses or The Large Bathers was painted by the Dutch artist Pierre-Auguste Re ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/02/2021
Cafe Terrace at Night, an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, depicts the terrace of the Place du Forum at night with several people are seated at the ta ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/01/2021
Guernica is one of the most powerful works of Pablo Picasso, and is regarded by several critics as the most moving and anti-war painting in the history of art.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/01/2021
The Great Wave of Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai, depicting three boats in heavy seas on the verge of facing the eponymous wave in front of Mount Fuji stan ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/12/2020
Painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of his Golden Period, The Kiss, a shimmering and clourful oil-on-canvas painting created by the Au ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/12/2020
Nevermore, the enigmatic oil on canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin in 1897 depicts a nude Tahitian woman, possibly the art ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/11/2020
Known as Souvenir of Biskra in French, the Blue Nude is an early 1907 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Henri Matisse, displayed at the Baltimore ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/11/2020
Le bonheur de Vivre is highly regarded as one of the strong pillars of early modernism. When exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Independants of 1906.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/10/2020
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which stands for the Young Women of Avignon in English, is a large oil painting measuring eight feet high by just over seven feet ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/10/2020
The Scream, created by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch, and illustrating a tormented cry translated into waves of color that resonate across the ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/09/2020
Instantly recognizable for its unique style, the Starry Night was painted by Vincent van Gogh while he was in Saint-Paul-de-Mausole.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/09/2020
The Bathers, exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the largest of a series of Bather paintings by the French artist Paul Cezanne.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
29/08/2020
Widely known as the Luncheon on the Grass, Le Dejeuner sur l herbe is a large oil on canvas painting, created by the French modernist painter Edouard Manet ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/08/2020
The Pastoral Concert, the mysterious oil painting in the Louvre in Paris, depicts a fashionably-dressed young man with long, dark locks, a full-sleeved red ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/08/2020
Girl with a Pearl Earring, considered as one of the most imposing paintings of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, depicts a young girl dressed in a yellow ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/07/2020
The mythological story of the Three Graces was a favourite subject and source of inspiration of many eminent painters and sculptors of the world.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/07/2020
According to the Books of Samuel, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, an elite soldier in the army of David, the king of Israel and Judah. One day, ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
17/06/2020
The Source, also known as the spring, created by the French neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, depicts a nude standing upright between an o ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/06/2020
Painted in 1863 by the renowned French artist Edouard Manet, Olympia features a nude woman leisurely reclining upon a chaise lounge with a small black cat a ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/05/2020
Created by the French artist Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry in 1861, The Wave and the Pearl is also known as The Pearl and the Wave. The sensual painting features ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/05/2020
Valpincon Bather is one of the earliest paintings of Ingress that reflects the influence Italy had on him. Basically, it simply depicts a nude female with h ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
17/04/2020
Rokeby Venus, also known as Venus at her Mirror, is considered by many critics as one of the most erotically charged images of any age.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/04/2020
Commissioned by Napoleon’s sister Caroline Murat, the queen of Naples, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres completed his La Grande Odalisque in 1814.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/03/2020
The Venus of Urbino, painted by the Italian painter Titian, is one of the greatest Renaissance painting of a mythological nature and the iconic version of a ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/03/2020
The Sleeping Venus, depicting the reclining Venus in a calm slumber, is said to be one of the last incomplete works by Giorgione. It, depicting the reclinin ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/02/2020
The Naked Maja or La Maja Desnuda, painted by the Spanish romantic artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828), portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/02/2020
The Last Supper is the visual interpretation of the artist of an event chronicled in all four of the Gospels. Located on the wall of the dining room.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/01/2020
Created by Leonardo da Vinci, the most celebrated Italian artist of the Renaissance period, Mona Lisa is a famous oil on wood painting, portraying a woman s ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
05/01/2020
The Lady of Shalott is one of the most popular poems of Lord Tennyson and also a favourite subject for the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
21/12/2019
Ophelia, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is a character which creates a deep impression in the heart of the sentimental readers. She was the naïve daughter of Polo ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/12/2019
The incestuous story of Lot and his daughters, one of the most shocking episodes in the Bible, is depicted in the Book of Genesis 19.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/11/2019
According to the Greek mythology, Europa was the daughter of Agenor, the King of Tyre and was known as the epitome of feminine beauty on Earth.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/11/2019
The Judgment of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which made its presence in the classical Greek literature like the Iliad and the Cypria.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/10/2019
Narcissus and Echo are two famous Greek tragic characters, depicted in a story told by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/10/2019
Circe, once the lover of Odysseus or Ulysses, warned him about the Sirens, the beautiful women with amazing voices, who try to allure and kill the sailors, ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/10/2019
In Greek mythology, Circe was a goddess of magic or a nymph, a witch, an enchantress. She was the daughter of the sun god Helios and Perse, one of the Ocean ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
16/09/2019
After Orpheus helplessly lost his ladylove Eurydice forever into the yawning abyss of eternal darkness, he became completely gloomy and depressed.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/09/2019
Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the most beloved Greek mythological stories, is all about love and passion, as well as about the weaknesses of the human spirit.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/08/2019
The composition of Ruben Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus depicts the figures raise upward like the flowers in a bouquet. Throughout history of the world ...
2008
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/08/2019
Hylas and the Nymphs is an 1896 oil painting by John William Waterhouse, which depicted the abduction of Hylas by the Naiads while seeking drinking water.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/07/2019
Since the days of the Renaissance, the story of Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan is a favorite subject for the painters. Venus, the goddess of love & beauty.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
10/07/2019
The Subject of Discovery of the child of Erichthonius, a mythological cruel story that precedes the erotic depiction of the daughters of Cecrops.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
28/06/2019
The story of Venus, the Roman counterpart of Greek Goddess Aphrodite, and Adonis is one of the most popular classic Greek myths about lust and rejection.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
16/06/2019
According to Roman Mythology, the Rape of the Sabine Women is an incident that took place soon after the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/06/2019
According to the ancient Greek mythology, Callisto, a river goddess. One day Jupiter, saw the Callisto and was immediately attracted by her magnetic beauty.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
18/05/2019
The predated tale of Roman Charity is the story of a kind woman, Pero, who secretly breastfed her father Cimon, who was imprisoned and sentenced to death.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/05/2019
Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523), an oil painting by Titian, based on the mythical story, was commissioned by Alfonso I dEste, Duke of Ferrara.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/04/2019
Venus, the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility, was the counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite. More than one painter paint Birth of Venus.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
09/04/2019
We are aware that Cleopatra is the name of a blockbuster movie (1963), in which Elizabeth Taylor played the role of Queen Cleopatra. She was a beautiful lady.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/03/2019
John the Baptist incurred his wrath and was imprisoned, as he reprimanded Herod for divorcing his wife Phasaelis and unlawfully marrying Herodias.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/03/2019
While Susanna, the fair Hebrew wife of Joakim, was taking a bath in her garden, two lustful elders secretly observed the young beauty.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/03/2019
According to Hebrew Bible, King David had at least seven wives. One of them, Maacah had two siblings with him – a son, named Absalom.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/02/2019
Perseus, one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology. As Andromeda screamed, Perseus immediately flew near the eye level of the monster and killed it.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/02/2019
As depicted in the Book of Genesis 39:1-20, Joseph was a handsome young Israelite. Since his father loved him more, his brothers became jealous.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/01/2019
Hercules or Heracles was the son of Zeus and was famous for his enormous physical strength. Consulted the oracle of Apollo, who advised him to enter the ser ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/01/2019
The story of the Rape of Lucretia is set in Rome around 509 BC, during the reign of Lucius Tarquinus, or Tarquin. He was known as Super bus, for his arrogance.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/12/2018
One day while he was on his regular hunting spree, Pan accidentally stumbled upon a breathtakingly beautiful young nymph from Arcadia, Syrinx.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
28/11/2018
The story of Cupid and Psyche is originally from the Metamorphoses (also known as Golden Ass) written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the 2nd century AD.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/11/2018
There were only three Muses. However, during the Classical Age, the number of Muses increased to nine. and each of the Muses was also assigned to a sphere.
