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Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 – May 27, 1987), aka Richard Bruce and Bruce Nugent, was an American gay writer and painter in the Harlem Renaissance.Despite being a part of a group of many Harlem artists, Nugent was among the handful who were publicly out.
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (1826), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Cupid and Juno bind two doves together over a split sphere in the painting as a symbol of peace and love. [72] Marie hoped for her son, Louis XIII , to marry the Spanish Infanta Anne of Austria and for her daughter Elizabeth to marry the future king of Spain, Philip IV , possibly resulting in an alliance between France and Spain. [ 73 ]
The painting represents the allegorical victory of Christianity over Death (depicted as a skull) and Sin (depicted as a snake). It was formerly thought to have been painted around 1615, but more recent stylistic comparisons with similar Rubens works have indicated that it was more likely to have been painted slightly later, i.e. around 1618.
56. I love you past the moon and beyond the stars. 57. Someone so special can never be forgotten; may your soul rest in peace. 58. The loss is immeasurable, but so is the love left behind.
In 1861, with the allegories of War and Peace (Municipal Museum of Amiens) he began his muralist work, for which he received numerous commissions throughout France and which would make him famous. [60] He painted murals in the town halls of Paris and Poitiers, the Panthéon, the Sorbonne and the Boston Public Library, among others.
Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.
Scattered around are the emblems of all human endeavors – violin and lute, armor, coronet, square and compasses, pen and manuscript, bay leaves, and flower, tangled and trampled under Cupid's foot. The painting illustrates the line from Virgil's Eclogues, Omnia Vincit Amor et nos cedamus amori ("Love conquers all; let us all yield to love ...