1890s
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Goddess Saraswati
Painting · Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma's Goddess Saraswati (1896) is a cornerstone of modern Indian painting, fusing European academic technique with Hindu sacred iconography and putting the gods into mass-reproducible imag
Bogatyrs
Painting · Viktor Vasnetsov
Vasnetsov's Bogatyrs (1898) is the defining image of Russian and Slavic folk-epic, the three heroes of the byliny rendered at monumental scale.Crosses Romanticism × Painting × Slavic Mythology, a cros
Hylas and the Nymphs
Oil on canvas · John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse painted Hylas and the Nymphs in 1896. The subject is Greek: Hylas, the young companion of Heracles on the voyage of the Argonauts, goes to fill a pitcher at a forest pool and i
The Sin
Oil on canvas · Franz von Stuck
Franz von Stuck's Die Sünde (The Sin), first shown in Munich in 1893, is among the defining images of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. A nude woman emerges from near-black shadow, a massive serpent coiled aro
The Scream
Painting (oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard) · Edvard Munch
Painted in 1893, The Scream is the defining image of European proto-expressionism and one of the most reproduced artifacts in cultural history. A figure on a bridge holds its head and emits a wordless
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
Painting (oil on canvas) · Fernand Khnopff
Painted in 1891, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the defining canvas of Belgian Symbolism and one of the foundational images of late nineteenth-century European decadence. The title is borrowed verbatim
