𝝅𝑹𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒚 @piriphery

∑π | On the periphery of the finite and the infinite. Joined June 2023

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𝝅𝑹𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒚 @piriphery

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"My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive." Berthe Morisot, painter.

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Vivien Leigh British theater and film actress. Awarded two Oscars for best actress. She is mostly remembered for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in the movie “Gone With the Wind“.

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"I stayed at Kelmscott for ten days and felt quite shut out of the busy world in that beautiful walled garden. I made two watercolors of the house and garden." Marie Spartali Stillman, painter.

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Marie Spartali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite artist and muse. She was also a successful model for the likes of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Marie Spartali Stillman, Feeding the Doves at Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. Art Renewal Center.

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Nicolaes Maes is a fitting example of a 17th-century artist who moved away from depicting biblical imagery in favor of genre painting. Nicolaes Maes, The Eavesdropper, 1657, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

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As genre painting, which depicted everyday activities and people, became an esteemed art form, various other movements would go on to champion scenes of the everyday life. Édouard Vuillard, Breakfast at Villerville, 1910, private collection.

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According to the Norse creation myth as found in the Prose Edda the first beings to emerge were the Jotun Ymir and the god Buri. They became the progenitors of all giants and gods.

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Berthe Morisot, Cottage Interior, 1886, Museum of Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.

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The Instructions of Shurupak, the oldest extant philosophical work, dated around 2000 BC, but according to some scholars it dates back to 2600 BC.

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Beds are a recurring theme in Nan Goldin‘s work as she reports her daily life through her photos. Relationships and love life are therefore an important part of her oeuvre. Nan Goldin, Empty Beds, 1979, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA.

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One of the most famous representations of death is that of the dying Christ by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna. Andrea Mantegna, The Dead Christ and Three Mourners, 1470-1474, Pinacoteca of Brera, Milan, Italy.

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The majority of female artists working between the 1500s and 1800s generally came from a family of artists. Artemisia Gentileschi, Catharina van Hemessen, and Michaelina Wautier were trained by their fathers and, respectively, brothers.

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze is famous for his genre scenes. Jean-Baptiste Greuze is famous for his genre scenes. In The Charity Lady, he tries to convey a specific lesson of morality. Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Charity Lady, 1773, Lyon Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France.

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Asunción Balaguer, a prestigious and beloved Spanish actress, whose life is closely linked to that of the great actor Paco Rabal. The young and beautiful Asunción already had a certain professional prestige when she debuted in Madrid in 1947.

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When Hernán Cortés and Motecuhzoma finally met in person, relations were initially friendly, but later Motecuhzoma was forced to declare himself a subject of Charles I of Spain (and V of Germany).

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Tracey Emin’s bed is also a testimony to her despair. She chose to exhibit at the Tate Gallery the very bed in which she spent several days in a bout of depression due to a romantic disappointment. Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998, Tate, London, UK.

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Henri Gervex, inspired by a poem written by Alfred de Musset depicts the tragic end of a ruined bourgeois man, Rolla, who was in love with a sex worker. Henri Gervex, Rolla, 1878, Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux, France.

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When MoMA offered to exhibit his work, Felix Gonzalez-Torres refused and asked them to rent him billboards instead. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled, 1991, New York, NY, USA.

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In painting, the bed is set as the place for the physical expression of passion and love. When couples lie in the bed or when it is stripped, it usually symbolizes or testifies to recent sexual intercourse. Gustave Courbet, The Sleep, 1866, Petit Palais, Paris, France.

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Toulouse-Lautrec painted their heads, arms, and the upper parts of their backs. The painting does not depict pure sentimental intimacy, but rather the result of it, the kiss. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In Bed, the Kiss, 1892, private collection.