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  • A Yacht and Other Vessels in a Calm, Willem van de Velde II, 1671, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
    Willem van de Velde II: A Yacht and Other Vessels in a Calm
    A breath of maritime freshness with this oil on canvas, which draws me in first through its value as historical testimony. We are in 1671, at the height of the Dutch Golden Age of seafaring, and Van de Velde II places us at the heart of a busy anchorage, somewhere between estuary and open water….
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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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