Art
- Hendrik Petrus Berlage
- Boijmans van Beuningen, Hieronimus Bosch
- M.C. Escher
- Vincent van Gogh
- Frans Hals
- Willem de Kooning
- Han van Meegeren, Piet Mondriaan
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Gerrit Rietveld, Jacob van Ruysdael
- Jan Steen
- Maarten Toonder
- Van Gogh Museum, Jan Vermeer
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“Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.”
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What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
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