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Death and Life (1915)

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life (Tod und Leben) 1915 Oil on canvas, 180.5 x 200.5 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna First Version: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life 1910–1911 Leopold Museum, Vienna    

Self-Portrait (1911)

Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Self-Portrait 1911 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 51.4 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Egon Schiele‘s career was short, intense, and amazingly productive. Before succumbing to influenza in 1918 at the age of twenty-eight,…

Job and His Daughters (1799-1800)

Blake, William (1757-1827) Job and His Daughters 1799–1800 Pen and tempera on canvas, 27.3 x 38.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man with a long, white beard and flowing, white hair sits surrounded by three young women in…

Betsabea (c.1636-1637)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Betsabea (Bathsheba) c.1636–1637 Oil on canvas, 265.4 x 209.5 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus

Love’s Passing (1883-1884)

De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.7 x 109.8 cm De Morgan Collection The open book shows a passage from Latin poet Tibullus‘s ‘Elegy‘, where the writer imagines dying in his lover’s arms and considers her grief…