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The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other famous authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller 's Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and Bürger 's Ballads (15 ...
Faust is a series of approximately 100 paintings created between 1976 and 1979 by Nabil Kanso. The paintings depict figural compositions in a sequence of scenes whose subjects are loosely based on Goethe 's 1808 play Faust Part One and Part Two .
Death playing chess (in Swedish: Döden spelar schack) is a monumental painting in Täby Church located just outside Stockholm, Sweden. It was painted around 1480–1490, by the Swedish medieval painter Albertus Pictor. [1] The painting depicts a man and a skeleton at a chessboard.
Checkmate is a fictional covert operations agency, as published by DC Comics.. The roster of the agency has changed a great deal over the years. These roster lists are of the members during the agency's various incarnations.
Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955) Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950) Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto) Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto) Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
Another Duchamp painting from the following year again depicts his brothers at the chess table. [19] Duchamp wrote a book titled Opposition and Sister Squares Are Reconciled which was published in 1932. [20] Man Ray and Duchamp are seen playing chess in René Clair's film Entr'acte. [21] A book titled Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess was ...
John Barnett, who had raised concerns about the safety of Boeing’s planes, was found dead during a break in depositions against the company.
Howitt made her exhibition debut at the National Institution of Fine Arts in 1854 with a painting inspired by Goethe's Faust, Margaret returning from the fountain or Gretchen at the fountain. She had begun painting this picture after she ended her engagement with her fellow artist Edward La Trobe Bateman in the summer of 1853. This was shortly ...