1880s
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The Starry Night
Painting · Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) is the defining work of Post-Impressionism, the night sky over Saint-Rémy turned into turbulence and light.Crosses Post-Impressionism × Painting × 1880s, opening the
The Lady of Shalott
Painting (oil on canvas) · John William Waterhouse
Painted in 1888, Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott illustrates the climactic stanza of Tennyson's 1832 poem: the Lady, having looked directly at Lancelot in the mirror and broken the curse, leaves her
Hope
Painting (oil on canvas) · George Frederic Watts
Completed in 1886, Watts's Hope is the great late-Victorian allegory and one of the most reproduced images of the nineteenth century. A blindfolded woman sits crouched on a globe, bent over a lyre wit
The Isle of the Dead
Painting (oil on canvas) · Arnold Böcklin
Böcklin painted five versions of this image between 1880 and 1886. The repetition is the first thing to notice. He did not work on the picture, sell it, and move on; he made it again, then again, then
