![]() Eventually, he transferred his sketches to a large canvas which he then beautifully painted. In 1840, the New York-born artist spent months traveling up and down the Mississippi River in a boat to sketch and take in the scenery. John Banvard was an American panorama and portrait painter best known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi Valley. The court painter, Rosso Fiorentino, painted a copy of it and it is the only copy that still remains, besides Peter Paul Rubens reproduction of it.ħ. ![]() ![]() There, Mini may have sold the painting because it was last seen in the royal collection of Fontainebleau in 1530. According to the story, Michaelangelo gave the painting to his friend and student, Antonia Mini, who then took the painting with him to France. From that encounter, Helen and Polydeuces are born, the former to later become the reason for the Trojan War. In the story of Leda and the swan, the Greek god Zeus appears in the form of a swan and rapes and seduces Leda. The Greek myth of Leda and the Swan was painted into life by Michaelangleo around 1530. In 1977, following Lady Churchill's death, it was discovered that she had destroyed the painting upon receiving it. Yet Sutherland's true-to-life style was not so appreciated by Churchill himself, nor his wife, and after the public presentation, it was never officially displayed. Sutherland was considered a 'moderate painter' and was known for capturing the 'real side' of his subjects, which is why the House of Commons and House of Lords donated money to have the painting done in 1954. In 1954, the artist Graham Sutherland was commissioned to paint a full-length portrait of Winston Churchill in celebration of is 80th birthday. Portrait of Winston Churchill, Graham Sutherland In April, 1958, a fire broke out on the second floor of MoMA, which was supposedly set off by a worker who lit a cigarette too close to paint cans and canvas.ĥ. The entire Water Lillies series was completed by Monet in 1883 and contained over 250 oil paintings, and which were also painted while Monet was suffering from cataracts. One of Claude Monet's most famous works as the founder of the French impressionist movement, two of the paintings from the series were destroyed by fire in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City in 1958. The Nazi Party set fire to the Schloss Immendorf Museum in 1945, ruining all of Lederer's Klimt works along with thousands of other pieces of art. In 1943, Lederer sent the paintings to the Schloss Immendorf museum for safe keeping during the war, however the opposite occurred. Serena Lederer was a wealthy Viennese art collector and a prominent member of Austria society who collected fourteen of Klimt's paintings that came to be known as the Fourteen Paintings. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter in the mid to late 19th century whose work focused on the female form and were noted for their eroticism. "Le Peintre" was part of a famous series in Picasso's revolutionary 'Blue Movement'. At the time of the crash, the painting was valued at about one and half million dollars. One of the most famous paintings by the modern art world's beloved creator, this 1963 painting entitled "Le Peintre" (The Painter) was lost in a 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Until today, it is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, constructed to celebrate the victory of Rhodes over the ruler of Cyprus in 305 BC. ![]() The statue, which was destroyed in the earthquake of 226 BC, stood over 30 meters (98.4 feet) high and was one of the tallest statues in the ancient world. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek Titan Helios, the personification of the sun, on the island of Rhodes, constructed by artist Charles of Lindos in 280 BC. The Colossus of Rhodes, Charles of Lindos The Painter on His Way to Work, Vincent Van Goghġ.Mississippi River Panorama, John Banvard.Portrait of Winston Churchill, Graham Sutherland.The Colossus of Rhodes, Charles of Lindos.Here are ten of the most famous masterpieces that have been forever lost to mankind. Yet there are certain works of art that can no longer teach us these invaluable lessons. This is what makes certain pieces of art more poignant and famous than others, when they come to symbolize a generation or period of time. Although we may not realize it, art is a cultural statement that remains to inform and educate future generations of how life once was.
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