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  • Esau Selling His Birthright, Matthias Stom, 1642–1645, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
    Matthias Stom : Esau Selling His Birthright
    C. 1642. A single candle illuminates a bargain that will alter the course of a lineage. Matthias Stom draws the viewer into the heart of a biblical family drama, caught between ravenous hunger and silent calculation. A Drama by Candlelight Consider this striking nocturnal scene. A solitary candle carves three faces out of the darkness….
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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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