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  2. Monica Sjöö - Wikipedia

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    Sjöö's most famous painting, God Giving Birth (1968), depicts a woman giving birth, and has the title text painted in red capitalized letters. It is an expression of Sjöö's spiritual journey at that time, inspired by her religious experience during the birth of her second son, and represents her perception of the Great Mother as the ...

  3. The Lady of Charity - Wikipedia

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    The Lady of Charity (French - La La Dame de charité) is a 1773 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It shows a wealthy lady encouraging her young daughter to give alms to a dying old man.

  4. The Proposition (Leyster) - Wikipedia

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    The Proposition is a genre painting of 1631 by Judith Leyster, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, who title it Man offering money to a young woman. [2] [3] It depicts a woman, sewing by candlelight, as a man leans over her, touching her right shoulder with his left hand. He is offering her coins in his right hand, but she is apparently ...

  5. Woman Giving Money to a Servant-Girl - Wikipedia

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    It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in a private collection. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote: 51. Woman giving Money to a Servant-Girl. In a well-furnished room sits a lady with an embroidery-pillow on her lap; she gives money from her purse to a servant-girl, who carries a market-pail.

  6. God Giving Birth - Wikipedia

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    God Giving Birth is a 1968 painting by the Swedish artist Monica Sjöö. It shows a nude woman whose face is half dark and half light, with the head of a child emerging from her birth canal. It shows a nude woman whose face is half dark and half light, with the head of a child emerging from her birth canal.

  7. 100 Great Paintings - Wikipedia

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    100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]

  8. Jennie Augusta Brownscombe - Wikipedia

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    Although she primarily made genre paintings, she also made portraits [6] and experimented with Impressionism, such as in the 1885 painting, Apple Orchards in May where she dotted green and white paint "to give the impression of the wispy, lovely bloom of apple trees in springtime."

  9. Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Carracci) - Wikipedia

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    Christ and the Samaritan Woman or The Woman at the Well is a 1593-1594 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, painted as part of the same scheme as the Palazzo Sampieri frescoes. Several years later he also produced a much smaller autograph copy with variations, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest .