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Christ before the High Priest
HONTHORST, Gerrit van about 1617

What is amazing about this painting is the light the candle throws. I've been twenty times to see this one.

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close up of the light. The real thing in the actual painting is very bright (sw)

edmund blair leighton 1853-1922 god-speed

This painting is very moving for me. Somehow I know this scene at the gate leaving for war. I know it well it creates a great pathos in me. I am sorry I don't know when the painting was done but Leighton lived from 1853-1922 (Stuart Wilde)

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George Stubbs is the most famous of those that painted horses and animals (sw)

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Dogs By Stubbs (sw)

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A Grey Horse George Stubbs.

His most famous painting is A Horse Attacked by  a Lion but I didn't post it here as it is a bit gruesome...(Stuart Wilde)

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This painting by Burne-Jones The Mirror of Venus is linked in mythology to the pianting below The Wedding of Psyche. Venus was jealous of Psyche so she condemned her to marry the ugliest creature alive (sw)

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Poor Psyche she didn't deserve to be condemned like this. Venus was one hell of an unprocessed shadow out of control ....a right bitch most say...(sw)

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This painting is very famous because of the round mirror and its reflection at the back of the picture. You can't see it real well on this thumbnail but if you want to see a lerger better jpg go to

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=arnolfini+and+his+wife&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

I like the little dog in the foreground. You can't see him in this little clip--pity.  I have been to see this painting once (sw)

mother and Child

I have seen visions of the feet in this drawing maybe seven times. Don't know why. I've seen it twice. (sw)

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very famous painting...by da Vinci there are two versions of this painting one is in London not sure where the other one is....but 'ya man'    da V.  painted it twice maybe he needed the money--tee (sw)   

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In 1967 I nearly bought this painitng by Rene Magritte from the Malborough Fine Arts gallery in London for £65,000...bloody shame I didn't must be worth several million today...Magritte was beautiful. His mind was so different ...so original and funny...(sw)

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This one by Margritte moves me because in the Aluna I have seen very tall stags moving through the trees just as the horse is here ...the stags I saw are 10-12 feet tall and they move through the forest very fast ...and they seem to run through the tree as if they are not there.  (sw)

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Hayes The Kiss I love this painting very much...SW

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I like the expression on thier faces SW

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I adore this painting because I have seen her three times in the Aluna with her chalice ...sorry a bit of her head is missing (SW)

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Holman-Hunt one of my all-time favorites love this goat !!  (SW)

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Le Mort d' Authur represents the death of the Yang - Ego at the hands of femininity and our softness..(sw)

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Drawing from a Children's book ...SW

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Josephine Wall is an extraordiary artist she must see these worlds in order to paint them I'd love to meet her one day. josephinewall.co.uk (SW)

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I like this painting because she reminds me of a love in another era...(sw) Josephinewall.co.uk

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Picasso's picture of the Spanish Civil War 'Guernica' is his most famous. It's in Madrid

but I have never liked his work as he always painted everything deformed and ghoulish and almost all his paintings of women seem so derogatory and bent out of shape...He is very overrated in my view though one can't say he was not original (sw)

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Thomas Gainsborough was famous in the 18C in England. He painted lots of very unattractive rather grotty aristocrats ...I reckon he sold his soul for money...but his landscapes are nice (sw)

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A famous sculpture... I've seen quite a few times by Rodin done in 1901-1904.  It evokes a sense of calm and it has a very large radiance around it like a bright aura that is clearly visible ...there are three verisons of The Kiss this one is in the Tate in London (sw)

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La Pieta by Michelangelo ....St. Peter's Basilica in Rome ...I like the way he carved the sadness on her face...it has always moved me ...(sw)

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This is a famlous painting of his (sw)

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One of Carravagios most beautiful painiting such a shame the image is a bit blurry it's an angel reading form a book and another lady it is called Rest from the Flight to Egypt (sw)

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Ive got a support ticket in as i dont know why some paintings are blurred I'll post more once I know. (sw) This statue is called angel weeping