John Singer Sargent, Garden Fantasy. Undated. Watercolour, 50.8 cm x 40.64 cm.
The statue is a direct reference to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne.
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Giovanni Bellini, Altarpiece fragment: Small tree with Inscription (signature). 1500-02. Oil on panel, 31 x 22 cm. The inscription reads: “IOANNES BELLI / NVS MEPINXIT (Ioannes Bellinus painted this).”
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Winslow Homer, Morning - The Morning Mist. 1892. Watercolour, 32.39 cm x 50.8 cm.
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John La Farge, Apple Blossoms and Butterfly. c. 1879. Watercolour and pencil on paper laid down on board, 12 x 12 cm. (in painted circle).
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Apunte de Ibiza (Sketch of Ibiza). 1919. Oil on cardboard, 20 x 24 cm.
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Zao Wou-Ki, The Forest. 1949. Watercolour on paper, 50.7 x 30.5 cm.
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Khalil Gibran, The Summit from Sand and Foam. c. 1925. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
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Balthasar van der Ast, Tulip. 1620s. Gouache, 313 x 202 mm.
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Edvard Munch, Moonlight. 1895. Oil on canvas, 93 x 110 cm.
![Giotto di Bondone, Legend of St. Francis: 15. Sermon to the Birds. 1297-99. Fresco, 270 x 200 cm. Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi.
Saint Francis: A song of praise! An exclamation mark! An island like an exclamation mark! […] An island in the seas, beyond the seas. Where the leaves are red, the pigeons green, the trees white, the sea changes from green to blue and from violet to green like the reflections of an opal. For we must have the birds of the islands as well, in order to answer the vows of the Psalm: Let the islands applaud!Brother Masseo: How do you know all this?Saint Francis: I have seen it in a dream…
Messiaen, Olivier, 1983. Saint François de’Assise, Act II.6: La Prêche aux oiseaux (The Sermon to the Birds). Libretto by O. Messiaen, trans. in P. Hill and N. Simeone, Messiaen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 315.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loo4jtxWx01qfoeqbo1_500.jpg)
Giotto di Bondone, Legend of St. Francis: 15. Sermon to the Birds. 1297-99. Fresco, 270 x 200 cm. Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi.
Saint Francis: A song of praise! An exclamation mark! An island like an exclamation mark! […] An island in the seas, beyond the seas. Where the leaves are red, the pigeons green, the trees white, the sea changes from green to blue and from violet to green like the reflections of an opal. For we must have the birds of the islands as well, in order to answer the vows of the Psalm: Let the islands applaud!
Brother Masseo: How do you know all this?
Saint Francis: I have seen it in a dream…
Messiaen, Olivier, 1983. Saint François de’Assise, Act II.6: La Prêche aux oiseaux (The Sermon to the Birds). Libretto by O. Messiaen, trans. in P. Hill and N. Simeone, Messiaen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 315.
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