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There are less egregious examples.

Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, from about 1511, is one of the world's most famous images.

But it was painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a place of religious worship. Seen on its own in cropped images, such context is lost.

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And, of course, in his beloved garden, where Monet bequeathed an artistic gift to the world with his two hundred and fifty paintings of water-lilies.

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The second element of Friedrich's Romanticism was his love of landscape painting.

Whereas the neoclassical and Enlightenment thinkers saw nature as something to be understood and conquered, Friedrich imbued his landscapes with a certain reverence, fear, and mystery:

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1872: The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo

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1851: The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin

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1849: Stormy Sea at Night by Ivan Aivazovsky

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One painting from every year of the 19th century, in chronological order.

1801: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David

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During the Middle Ages yellow came to be associated with Judas, even though the Bible never mentions this, and so he was often painted in yellow robes.

As in this work by Giotto (1267-1337):

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1910: The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni

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1903: Polish Hamlet (Portrait of Alexander Wielopolski) by Jacek Malczewski

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