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  • Magdeburg Cathedral, Paul Adolf Seehaus, 1918, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    Paul Adolf Seehaus: Magdeburg Cathedral
    What first draws me into this canvas is its dominant reddish-pink glow, almost incandescent. Not knowing this building, I went looking for its history and a few photographs. I discovered it to be the first Gothic cathedral built on German soil, standing in Magdeburg, capital of Saxony-Anhalt, east of Berlin. What colours to depict a…
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Topics

Perseus Freeing Andromeda, Peter Paul Rubens, 1620–1622, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Baroque Art

Wheat Fields by Jacob van Ruisdael, circa 1670

Golden Age

Mezzetin, by Antoine Watteau, circa 1718-1720

Rococo

Sweet Melancholy, 1756, Joseph Marie Vien

Neoclassicism

Two Men by the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1817, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders Public Domain

Romanticism

The Houses of Parliament, London, 1900–1901, by Claude Monet

Impressionism

Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne, 1893-1894, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Post-impressionism

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