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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. Here is a new Scrabble word for you - "taphophobia".

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2021-10-16

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

—Oscar Wilde, born 1854

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2021-10-16

今日はアイルランド出身の作家オスカー・ワイルドの誕生日（1854年）。19世紀末の唯美主義文学を代表する存在ですが、長篇小説は『ドリアン・グレイの肖像』を遺しただけでした。戯曲『サロメ』、童話『幸福な王子』、笑話『嘘から出た誠』も人気のある作品です。☞ https://t.co/dpufucmWOb

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2021-10-16

Wotan, Götterdämmerung (1906) by Hermann Hendrich (1854-1931).

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2021-10-16

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862), Winter Landscape with Wood Gatherers and Skaters, 1854
oil on canvas
private collection

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2021-10-12

View in the Neighbourhood of Oranienbaum, 1854

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2021-10-10

AGP - 1854
Sorry for the delays.

Vesta, you will never be the better mom!!

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2021-10-05

This illustration of Victoria amazonica by William Sharp is among the first and finest examples of American chromolithography published in the 1854 book Victoria Regia or The Great Water Lily of America.

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2021-10-01

Carl Joseph Begas (30 September 1794 – 24 November 1854) was a German historical painter

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2021-09-30

...............................................................29.9.Lucien Claude Alexandre Berthault ( 29 September1854-1921)was an French painter lucien-claude-alexandre-berthault-echos

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2021-09-30

The Poem of the Soul: The Wrong Path – Louis Janmot, c. 1854. {Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon}.

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2021-09-29

September 28, 1854: Painter Ignác Roskovics is born in Slavkovce 🇸🇰 († 1915). His work spans many classifications: frescoes, altar paintings, iconostases, portraits, genre scenes, still lifes, & book illustrations. Roskovics was a representative of the Munich School realism.

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2021-09-28

15 septembre 1852 : lancement à Cherbourg de l'Austerlitz, vaisseau de 90 canons de type Suffren transformé en mixte. Il prit part à la guerre de Crimée mer Baltique en 1854-1855 avant de servir de ponton caserne puis comme d'École des mousses de 1874 à 1894.

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2021-09-15

Evening. Death and the Old Woman, 1887.
Laurits Andersen Ring.
Danish. 1854-1933

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2021-09-15