Biondina (1879) - Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) #academicism #aestheticism #portrait

Biondina (1879) - Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) #academicism #aestheticism #portrait
Young Woman in Kimono (c.1901) - Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932) #japonisme #aestheticism #tonalism #genre_painting
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”
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