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One of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known paintings, The Death of Tasso, depicts the death of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). Tasso was famous for his epic poem, La Gerusalemme liberate (…
Contributor:
Friedrich Friedländer
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
Date Unknown, 18th century
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In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…
Contributor:
Mindy Weisel
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
Contributor:
David Frishman
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1901