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Word: gelestin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestive mood of prints, many artists chose bizarre subjects--tigers, vagabonds, and birds of prey--to dance among the shadows of their backgrounds. Since prints are designed to be reproduced and sold the artists tempted the pre-photographic public with the sentimental or the grotesque. In a lithopraph by Gelestin Nateuil, titled "Daughters of the Devil," three bonnetted damsels appear to be having a typical Jane Austen chat except that a gargoyle, silhouetted agaisnt a full moon, hovers behind a tree...

Author: By Cynthia Saltzman, | Title: Delacroix to Degas | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

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