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Loic Burzotta

Icarus Fallen (1920) by Alfred Schwarzschild (German, 1874 – 1948), signed, inscribed, and dated ‘A. Schwarzschild. Mchn. 1920’, oil on canvas, 76.3 x 133.5 cm (30 x 53 in), Private Collection

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Sandra Krasker:  Acrylic, charcoal pencil. 

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Leo Garbo

Pillars of Creation

HARVEY FERDSCHNEIDER, 1989.

Photographer: Igor Mattio

Alessandro Cascioli and Partner

Antoine‑Félix Boisselier’s 1808 rendering of Culex transforms a minor Virgilian poem into a quiet epic of gratitude and remorse. A lone shepherd pauses before a funerary stele, its inscription honouring the smallest of guardians — the gnat that died warning him of the serpent at his feet. The wreath, the Arcadian landscape, the vigilant hound, and the coiled threat together stage a moment of moral clarity: even the most fragile life can perform a heroic act, and even the most powerful can be blind to it until it is gone. Boisselier elevates the pastoral into the mythic, letting a tiny creature’s sacrifice ripple through the stillness of the scene.

Study of a Nude Man (early 1840s), Attributed to Gustave Courbet