Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (La Nature se dévoilant à la Science) is an allegorical sculpture created in 1899 in the Art Nouveau style by Louis-Ernest...
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that other museums or institutions once showcased such as Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science by Louis-Ernest Barrias that was initially commissioned...
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of 1881, now in the Petit Palais. At the Musée d'Orsay: Nature Unveiling Herself before Science (1899) Bust of Henri Regnault (1871) Nubian Alligator Hunters...
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the arm over the face comes directly from his previous paintings … Venus herself takes over the entire front of the picture plane. Her hair has been deepened...
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Veil of Isis (section Personification of nature)
Barrias's 1899 sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science, in which the multiple breasts are omitted and the figure of Nature wears a scarab on her...
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Equality Before Death is an 1848 oil-on-canvas painting by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts an angel of death covering...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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and his sight of a painting "giving realism's last word". By the very nature of its realistic, graphic nudity, the painting still has the power to shock...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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which may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait, was painted shortly before he left Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France. The painting is now at...
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vertical painting of the image in 1854 and an etching in 1855. Millet unveiled The Gleaners at the Salon in 1857. It immediately drew negative criticism...
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Manet's honesty, however: "When our artists give us Venuses, they correct nature, they lie. Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth;...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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for which he sold The Gleaners. The Angelus was eventually shown the year before Millet's death in Brussels in 1874, where it was greatly admired by Léon...
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fantastic woman, animal by nature and so disgusted with the complete satisfaction of her desires (that she) gives herself the sad pleasure of seeing her...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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represent the actual, changing conditions of light and shadow as seen in nature, challenging the academic convention of painting shadows black. This subjective...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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debuted as the most highly acclaimed work of the Paris Salon of 1847, a year before the 1848 Revolution which toppled the July Monarchy. Reminiscent of the...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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It is, in short, this vast ensemble, full of atmosphere, this corner of nature rendered with a simplicity so just, all of this admirable page in which...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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representing the angel of Humanity, or perhaps Consciousness, is on his knees before the Sphinx, begging her to reveal the reason for the eternal enigma which...
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children also exhibited at the Official Salon, Dominique Lobstein states that "before perhaps contributing to an aesthetic revolution, this painting participates...
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French Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science Clésinger: Woman Bitten by a Serpent Claudel: The Mature Age Delaplanche: Virgin with a Lily...
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