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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. -
Crystal Palace, London
Designed by Joseph Paxton.Industrial Architecture: 300,000 panes of glass on wrought-iron framework.Originally erected in Hyde Park before being moved to Penge Common. -
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
Designed by Henri Labrouste.Industrial cast-iron construction. The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. -
Faust: Ballet Music, France
By Charles Gounod. Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1 -
Romeo and Juliet Overture by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare and wrote works based on The Tempest and Hamlet as well. -
Manet: Before the Psyche, 1876
Impressionism. Edouard Manet's 1876 painting Before the Mirror depicts the sumptous life style of Balzac's archetype of the decadent and wanton courtesan. -
Age of Bronze, 1876. Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
When the statue was first exhibited at the 1877 Salon in Paris, France, Rodin was falsely accused of having made the statue by casting a living model, a charge that was vigorously denied. This charge benefited Rodin though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves. -
Anna Karenina
This is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. -
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Designed by Antoni Gaudi. (1883)Designed by Antoni Gaudi. Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona. -
J. Dalou: Silenus, 1885. Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.
The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Garden, located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, was created beginning in 1612 by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France, for a new residence she constructed, the Luxembourg Palace. The garden today is owned by the French Senate, which meets in the Palace. -
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Designed by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) and Stephen Sauvestre.Industrial Architecture: Giant viaduct pylon, prefabricated iron girders. -
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor.
The world's most famous statue.Dedicated 1886, and designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. -
Monet: Woman with a Parasol, 1886. Orsay.
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer's day. -
Starry Night, Arles
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, before sunrise. -
Winslow Homer, “An October Day,” 1889
Watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on cream wove paper. -
The Galerie des Machines, Paris
Designed by Ferdinand Dutert and Victor Contamin. The Galerie des machines was a pavilion built for the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Located in the Grenelle district, the huge pavilion was made of iron, steel and glass, and was by far the largest vaulted building to have yet been built. -
Wainwright Building, St Louis (1890-91)
Designed by Louis Sullivan based on a grid of pronounced structural verticals.The Wainwright Building is a 10-story red brick office building at 709 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The Wainwright Building is among the first skyscrapers in the world. -
Ia Orana Maria, 1891
Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Paul Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian canvas, to a Christian theme. -
Dracula
Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations. -
Louis Barrias: Nature Unveiling Herself, 1899. Musee Orsay, Paris.
This is an allegorical sculpture created in 1899 in the Art Nouveau style by Louis-Ernest Barrias. The sculpture depicts a woman—personifying Nature—removing a veil to reveal her face and bare breasts.
