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Gustave Moreau
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Fan account of Gustave Moreau, a major figure in French Symbolist painting.
1826-1898
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Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/saint-michael-vanquishing-satan
Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Hercules and the Hydra Lernaean https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/hercules-and-the-hydra-lernaean-1876
Hercules and the Hydra Lernaean
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Abduction of the Young Venetian Woman by Cypriot Pirates https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/abduction-of-the-young-venetian-woman-by-cypriot-pirates-1851
Abduction of the Young Venetian Woman by Cypriot Pirates
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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The Sphinx https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-sphinx-1864
The Sphinx
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Aphrodite https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298150
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The Prodigal Son https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-prodigal-son-1890
The Prodigal Son
February 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Helene glorifee https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/helene-glorifee-1897
Helene glorifee
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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The Infant Moses https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230130
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
February 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Leda https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/leda
Leda
February 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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The Victorious Sphinx https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-victorious-sphinx-1886
The Victorious Sphinx
February 4, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Hesiod and the Muse https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/hesiod-and-the-muse-1870
Hesiod and the Muse
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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The Death of Sappho https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-death-of-sappho-1876
The Death of Sappho
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Salome Dancing before Herod https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/salom-dancing-before-herod-1876
Salome Dancing before Herod
February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Saint George https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/saint-george
Saint George
February 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Sappho in Leucadia https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/sappho-in-leucadia
Sappho in Leucadia
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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The Unicorns https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-unicorns
The Unicorns
February 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Pieta https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/pieta-1
Pieta
February 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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The Abduction of Europa https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-abduction-of-europa
The Abduction of Europa
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20579/
Gustave Moreau developed a highly personal vision that combined history, myth, mysticism, and a fascination with the exotic and bizarre. Rooted in the Romantic tradition, Moreau focused on the expression of timeless enigmas of human existence rather than on recording or capturing the realities of the material world. Long fascinated with the myth of Hercules, Moreau gave his fertile imagination free rein in Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra. Looming above an almost primordial ooze of brown paint is the seven-headed Hydra, a serpentine monster whose dead and dying victims lie strewn about a swampy ground. Calm and youthful, Hercules stands amid the carnage, weapon in hand, ready to sever the Hydra’s seventh, “immortal” head, which he will later bury. Despite the violence of the subject, the painting seems eerily still, almost frozen. Reinforcing this mysterious quality is Moreau’s ability to combine suggestive, painterly passages with obsessive detail. The precision of his draftsmanship and the otherworldliness of his palette are the result of his painstaking methods; he executed numerous preliminary studies for every detail in the composition. In contrast to such exactitude, the artist also made bold, colorful watercolors that eschew detail, as exercises to resolve issues of composition and lighting. Moreau seems to have intended this mythological painting to express contemporary political concerns. He was profoundly affected by France’s humiliating military defeat by Prussia in 1870–71. Whether or not Hercules literally personifies France and the Hydra represents Prussia, this monumental work portrays a moral battle between the forces of good and evil, and of light and darkness, with intensity and power. Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson
February 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/night
Night
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/apollo-vanquishing-the-serpent-python
Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Pasiphae and the Bul https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/pasiphae-and-the-bul-1880
Pasiphae and the Bul
February 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Silver Age (Orpheus) https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/silver-age-orpheus
Silver Age (Orpheus)
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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The Toilet https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/the-toilet-1890
The Toilet
January 31, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Oedipus and the Sphinx https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437153
Bequest of William H. Herriman, 1920
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM