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  2. Lilith (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Collier portrayed Lilith as a golden-haired, porcelain-skinned beautiful nude woman who fondles on her shoulder the head of a serpent, coiled around her body in a passionate embrace. [3] Against the background of a dark, brown-green jungle, stands a naked female figure, whose pale skin and long blond hair falling down her back form a stark ...

  3. Melancholy (Munch) - Wikipedia

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    The painting depicts a man with his head resting in his hand in a pensive mood at the edge of a shoreline. The inspiration for the painting was an unhappy romantic affair that Munch's friend, Jappe Nilssen, was involved in. In Munch's painting the figure of the melancholy man is at the right, and his mood is represented by the undulating ...

  4. Reclining Buddha - Wikipedia

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    Buddha in parinirvana, Gandhara art, 2nd or 3rd century Buddha entering nirvana, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam, 17th century AD. A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art.

  5. Portrait of Maria Yermolova - Wikipedia

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    The same purpose is served by the arches, the shape of which corresponds to the lines of Yermolova's head and hands. The canvas is not monochrome, but the colour scheme is integral, combining various shades of grey, brown and black: "the black is dark blue, green and brown; the grey wall shimmers with violet; the floor is painted with ochre ...

  6. Abraham Lincoln (Healy) - Wikipedia

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    State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln is an 1869 oil-on-canvas painting by George Peter Alexander Healy of Abraham Lincoln , the 16th president of the United States . In the painting, a contemplative Lincoln is observed alone, leaning forward in a chair, with his elbow on his knee and his head resting on his hand. [ 1 ]

  7. Death of the Virgin (van der Goes) - Wikipedia

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    Art historian Lorne Campbell writes, "it is possible that the Brunswick drawing reflects one of his earliest ideas for the Bruges painting and that the Berlin, Prague and London pictures echo, however distantly, a later stage in his development of the Bruges composition. [9] Martin Schongauer, The Death of the Virgin, engraving, early 1470s.

  8. Ardhanarishvara - Wikipedia

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    In the three-armed representation, the left hand holds a flower, a mirror or a parrot. In the case of two-armed icons, the left hand rests on Nandi's head, hangs loose or holds either a flower, a mirror or a parrot. The parrot may be also perched on Parvati's wrist. Her hand(s) is/are adorned with ornaments like a keyura (anklet) or kankana ...

  9. Metamorphosis of Narcissus - Wikipedia

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    the hallucinatingly white oval of his head, his head again more tender, his head, chrysalis of hidden biological designs, his head held up by the tips of the water’s fingers, at the tips of the fingers of the insensate hand, of the terrible hand, of the excrement-eating hand, of the mortal hand of his own reflection. When that head slits