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Artistic Depictions of Literary Themes

A series of artworks inspired by literary themes, showcasing emotional scenes and landscapes, capturing the essence of stories like Don Quixote and Pyramus and Thisbe.

Detail of Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon Oil on canvas; 1816 John Martin; British; 1789 - 1854
Detail of Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon Oil on canvas; 1816 John Martin; British; 1789 - 1854
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Bound Volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle: The Progress of the Stars: Les Esclaves, 1890. Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951), C. Marpon & Flammarion. 18 color lithographs in a Bound Volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle; book: 24.5 x 32.2 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.).The Last Judgment and the Seven Deadly Sins, Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, 1600 - 1638 painting The Last Judgment and the Seven Dead Sounds. The hell in which the naked damned in groups swarmed over the land and water, on the right a large Hellemond in which the deadly sins are depicted by figures. Everywhere there are devils and monsters, a few large buildings and flames, on the left, panel. oil paint (paint) the Seven Deadly Sins (personified). entrance of hell as monstrous mouth (of Leviathan) in a landscape. Last JudgementThe Dream by Detaille, Edouard (1848-1912) / Musee d'Orsay, Paris / 1888 / France / Oil on canvas / Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History / 300x400 / RealismRegional Art Museum, Kirovohrad Samokish, Nikolai Semyonovich (1860-1944) Russian State Library, Moscow 1904-1906 Colour lithograph Realism Russia History Harbor with Roman Ruins, circa 1750 Leonardo CoccoranteThe Effects of Good Government in the Country, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1340, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace, eastern wall. Detail. Farmers reaping field work.EL RIO - SIGLO XX - 197x132. Author: ANTONIO BELMONTE (1952-). Location: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID-COLECCION DE ARTE. MADRID. SPAIN.Saint Jerome, by Filippino Lippi, detail, 1457/8-1504The Riverside, Becker, Smith & Page, Inc., founded 1899, Machine-printed on paper, Landscape frieze, with two clusters of trees in foreground, and large clusters of trees in background, printed in silhouette. Printed in shades of greens and browns on ground that shades from light yellow at top to green at bottom., USA, 1905-15, Wallcoverings, Frieze, FriezeThe First Kiss of the Sun Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904 French) Oil on canvas boardThe Reapers 1783. George StubbsGeorge Catlin, Excavating a Canoe Nayas Indians, 1855 1869 Excavating a Canoe - Nayas IndiansFlake on a dove stobend 1844. (Adolph Menzel; Breslau 1815-1905 Berlin)Kruskopf, Pehr Adolf, work, Imatra, owner: Kansallisgalleria / Ateneum art museum, 1847, technique text: oil on canvas, painting, keywords: landscape; affected, Imatra, Karelia, human being; gazebo, 46 cm x 57 cmAlfredo Opisso / "Sports wall chart (detail I)", S.XX, Oil.Part (middle part) of a ceiling painting with the main performance Diana and her cozordies, Gerard de Lairesse, c. 1676 - c. 1682 painting. ceiling painting Part (middle part) of a ceiling painting of five parts with the main performance Diana and its cozordies, painted for the 'Great Hall' of Paleis Soestdijk. canvas. oil paint (paint) painting (story of) Diana (Artemis) Soestdijk PalaceKrestnin by Vasili Grigorevich Perov, 1834-1882Bliżej Kultury unknown(PAISAJE INESTABLE). Author: DANIEL QUINTERO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.Village Street, Walter Spies, 1928, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.Digging Sand, or The Sand Cart Anton Mauve (Dutch, 1838-1888). Digging Sand, or The Sand Cart, ca. 1875. Oil on canvas, 21 15/16 x 31 15/16 in. (55.7 x 81.1 cm). European Art ca. 1875Princess Ella Petoskey. ca. 1936, Petoskey, Michigan, USA, PRINCESS ELLA PETOSKEY. Princess Ella Petoskey is a grand-daughter of Chief Petoskey and belongs to the Ottawa tribe of Indians. She is a graduate of Carlisle College of Pennsylvania and is a charming speaker. Has traveled extensively in the South and West as teacher at the Indian Reservation. Guillotine Lock, Lifford, Edward Steel Harper,Man on red horse by Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin, Oil on canvas, 1925, 1878-1939, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 50,5x65Village scene by Peeter Bout, Oil on canvas, 1658-1719, Russia, Serpukhov, State Museum of History and Art, 21x30The Burning of Troy 1643, Della Bella, Stefano, 1643.Springtime and Love. Francesco Paolo Michetti; Italian, 1851-1929. Date: 1878. Dimensions: 94.6 × 184.3 cm (37 1/2 × 72 3/4 in.). Oil on canvas. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.France, Paris, Basset, Optical view of a three-sided arc de triomphe, in the city of Canton in China, View of a triumphal arch on a square in Canton, print, optic print, prints, optic prints, height 277 mm, width 435 mm, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, 1700 - 1799, paper, papier, cardboard, prepared paper, watercolor (paint), watercolour, deck paint, etching, brush, schilder, cutting, Snij, perforating, perforateren, print maker, prentmakerPlain of the Air (La Plaine de 'Air) 1941 Rene Magritte (1898-1967 /Belgian) Oil on canvas Private Collection Paul-Albert Baudouin (1844-1931). "History of wheat". Sketch for the school on rue Dombasle. Oil on canvas, 1880. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 61091-2 Farmer, sketch, story ble, harvest, harvest, harvester, harvester, peasant, work, work, field, oil on canvasState Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 123,7x184 History Windflower on Dapperplein in Amsterdam, Isaac Israels, c. 1895 drawing Netherlands paper. square, place, circus, etc.. winds DapperpleinThistles and Butterflies Schrieck, Otto Marseus van (1619/20 1678)Old New York Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933). , ca. 1877. Oil on canvas, 26 3/4 x 30 1/16 in. (68 x 76.3 cm). American Art ca. 1877Sunny Days Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "L Alma-Tadema ? ", Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912, DutchThe Lookout by William Robinson Leigh, 1866-1955Peasant dwellings, Upper Egypt. Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879. Prints, Illustrations. 1851. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Egypt , Social life and customs, Dwellings , Egypt, Spinning , Egypt, Birds , Egypt, Children , Egypt, Cats , Egypt, Women , Clothing & dress , EgyptDETALLET DEL ESCUDO DE CARLOS V - MURALLAS DE CARTAGO - SIGLO XVI. Location: PALACIO REAL-REAL ARMERIA DE MADRID. MADRID. SPAIN.Gomero, Orchilla Gatherer, Alfred Diston, active 1818-1829, 1828, Watercolor and graphite on medium, slighlty textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 9 × 6 3/8 inches (22.9 × 16.2 cm), figure study, genre subject, man, rocks (landforms), ropeElegy by Kotarbinsky, Vasilii (Wilhelm) Alexandrovich (1849-1921) / State Art Museum, Dnepropetrovsk /Poland / Oil on canvas / Genre / 47x67'Cairo ...', c1920. Artist: ENA.Frieze, The Riverside; Manufactured by Becker, Smith & Page, Inc.; USA; machine-printed on paperFRUHSTUCK held by NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN at "SS ""FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE""" (SS;). Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. 1901. Rare Book DivisionSnow Maiden by Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhaylovich (1848-1926) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 1899 Oil on canvas 115x79,8 Russia Russian Painting, End of 19th - Early 20th cen. Mythology, Allegory and Literature PaintingAfter a demonstration (They have seen Stalin) by Mochalsky, Dmitri Konstantinovich (1908-1988)/ State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/ 1949/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Soviet political agitation art/ GenreSilhouette of a statue, Vittorio Emanuele Monument, Rome, ItalyHistoric Painting By Emanuel Leutze Entitled "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". Original caption: Historic painting by Emanuel Leutze entitled "Westward the course of Empire takes its way" hung on the west staircase in the House wing of the U.S. Capitol.Winter scene with the monument to Peter the Great on Senate Square in St. Petersburg by Surikov, Vasili Ivanovich (1848-1916)/ State V. Surikov Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk/ 1870/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 53x71/ LandscapeThe ccaption for this image reads: Omoo-'It was a green cool hollow among the mountains into which we at last descended.' Omoo or A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, is a novel by the American novelist Herman Melville. Published in 1847, it was a sequel to Melvilles novel Typee. Based on his own experiences in the South Pacific, this episodic novel, in a more comical vein than that of Typee, tells of the narrators participation in a mutiny on a whale ship and his subsequent wanderings in Tahiti with the ships former doctor, Long Ghost. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee (a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia), Omoo, and Billy Budd. The illustrator is Mead Schaeffer.