1870s
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Asgardsreien (The Wild Hunt of Odin)
Painting · Peter Nicolai Arbo
Arbo's Asgardsreien (1872) is the great Romantic painting of the Norse Wild Hunt, Odin and the host of the dead riding across the night sky.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Norse Mythology, and connec
The Dance Class
Painting · Edgar Degas
Degas' The Dance Class (c. 1874) is one of the central works of Impressionism, the off-centre composition and candid poses learned partly from photography and Japanese prints.Crosses Impressionism × P
Impression, Sunrise
Painting · Claude Monet
Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872) gave Impressionism its name. The loose, light-first handling of the harbour at Le Havre was the break that reorganised European painting.Crosses Impressionism × Pain
Pornokratès
Etching (heliogravure) · Félicien Rops
Completed in 1878, Pornokratès, also titled Lady with Pig, is the canonical work of Belgian decadence and Félicien Rops's most reproduced image. A nude woman walks blindfolded across a stone parapet,
The Apparition
Watercolor · Gustave Moreau
Completed in 1876, Moreau's The Apparition is the central image of French Haute Symbolism and the most famous of the artist's many Salomé works. Salomé stands centre, jeweled and tense, while the dise
