Georges de la Tour (1593-1652), ‘The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame’, 1635-37 ”Mary Magdalen was traditionally depicted in her grotto or as an aged woman. The absence of explicit narrative in this painting emphasizes Mary’s state of mind and heart rather than time and place. The simple composition of vertical and horizontal shapes draws the viewer into the Magdalen’s contemplative world. The skull, books of Scripture, and scourge set the mood, but the chief symbol and true subject of the work is the candle at which Mary gazes in her meditation. Rendered in extraordinary detail and modulation, it emits the light that followers of St. John of the Cross called “the living flame of love,” toward which spiritual pilgrims are drawn out of the “dark night of the soul.” Source

Blind Singers, 1912, Robert Henri

Golden chalice with lotus motifs and the cartouche of Queen Twosret, consort of Seti II and later pharaoh herself. Egypt, 19th dynasty. ~1190 BC. [474x600]

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Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942)

Twilight Confidences, 1888. Oil on canvas.

Study for Twilight Confidences. Oil on cardboard (grisaille).

And he returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, 1900, Vasily Polenov

The Chrystal Gazer, 1913, Lilla Cabot Perry

Hampstead Stormy Sky, 1814, John Constable

The Assassination of the Bishop of Liege, 1829, Eugene Delacroix

Medium: oil,canvas

Ahuehuete de la Noche Triste, 1885, Jose Maria Velasco

Portrait of Isaac C. Bates, Esq., 1906, Frank W. Benson

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frank-w-benson/portrait-of-isaac-c-bates-esq-1906

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Allegoria della Notte (1524 ca.  - 1531 ca.)

marceline desbordes valmore, nadar

auguste luchet, nadar

Fishing Boats In A Harbor, 1854, Ivan Aivazovski

Medium: oil,canvas

Cristóbal de Villalpando, Santa Rosa atacada por el demonio (Saint Rose attacked by the Devil), circa 1695-97.

gustave mathieu, nadar

The Fall of The Rebel Angels (detail), Sebastiano Ricci