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English Cemetery, Florence Greek island Pontikonisi, near Corfu, was a possible inspiration for the painting Montenegrin island Saint George near Perast, is another likely contender as the inspiration for the painting. Isle of the Dead evokes, in part, the English Cemetery in Florence, Italy, where the first three versions were painted. The ...
Fujishima Takeji (藤島 武二, October 15, 1867 – March 19, 1943) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.
The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851). It was the first Argentine work of prose fiction.
The work is more than four meters tall, and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre. A frieze -like display of suffering characters, military might, ornate and colourful costumes, terror, disease and death is shown in front of a scene of widespread desolation.
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones; Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled
After his death in 1901 his reputation declined rapidly as modern art styles made the literary character of his paintings seem old-fashioned. [6] Despite this, his work was a significant influence on Giorgio de Chirico [ 7 ] – who said "Each of Böcklin's works is a shock" [ 3 ] – and was admired by Surrealist painters such as Max Ernst and ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
A black and white reproduction of Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin was the inspiration for the piece.. Isle of the Dead (Russian: Остров мёртвых), Op. 29, is a symphonic poem composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in the key of A minor.