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The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon '), c. 1499-1500, charcoal o...

  Drapery Study for an Angel , c. 1495-8, ink on paper, 21.3 x 15.9 cm, Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, UK. Skin beneath cloth, finely ...

  Man and Woman , 1917-19, Oil on canvas, 305 x 177 cm, National Gallery of Denmark "Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancin...

And In His Eyes I Saw Death , 1897, Oil on canvas, 188 x 137 cm, National Gallery of Denmark

Memory , 1903, marble, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek A cenotaph to lost time, the grieving figure of memory herself is lost in reverie, carved win...

The Hours , 1882, Oil on canvas, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK Seven maidens, each symbolic of a period of the day, act as melancholy person...

The Bed , 1893, oil on cardboard, 51.3 x 70.4 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when ...

Map , 1961, oil on canvas, 198.1 x 312.7 cm, MoMA, New York The idea of a map is broken apart and revealed in its absurdity - America as pa...

Tobias and the Angel , c. 1469 Tobias and the Archangel Raphael are depicted as finely-garbed travellers, a vast landscape stretching behind...

 Cupid and Psyche , c. 1789, oil on canvas, 139.8 x 168.3 cm, Courtauld Gallery, London Candlelight illuminates the corpse-like figure of t...

Dolly Parton , 2011 "Well I can't tell you where I'm going, I'm not sure of where I've been But I know I must keep trav...

 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818, Oil on canvas, 94.8 × 74.8 cm, Kunsthalle Hamburg "The painter should paint not only what he ...

I cannot yet say which direction this blog will go in, or even if it will survive its first postings (many blogs don't and Blogger begin...