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The Great Sphinx by Maxime Du Camp, 1849, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.
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The Great Sphinx by Maxime Du Camp, 1849, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
1840 - 1841 - 1842 - 1843 - 1844 - 1845 - 1846 - 1847 - 1848 - 1849

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  • La Vie de bohème, play by Murger
  • The use of the term Modern art was first attested in 1849. It took another 14 years to produce the first recognized works of modern art: "The Lunch on the Grass" (1863) and "Olympia" (1863), both by Edouard Manet.
  • Courbet’s monumental canvas The Stonebreakers, painted in 1849
  • Courbet's Burial at Ornans (1849-50)
  • Gesamtkunstwerk
    • The conscious act of artistically addressing all the senses with regard to the viewer’s experience in totality made a resounding debut in 1849 when Richard ...
  • Necrophilia
    • Sergeant Bertrand's arrest in 1849 came as a shock to his army comrades, for it was alleged, and proved at his trial, that for the past two years he had been in the habit ...
  • Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
    • La première fois que nous rencontrâmes Baudelaire, ce fut vers le milieu de 1849 , à l'hôtel Pimodan, où nous occupions, près de Fernand Boissard, ...
  • Eccentric and Remarkable Characters (Fairholt)
  • Richard Wilhelm Wagner: From Art and Revolution 1849
  • In May 1849 he began his most active "rescue work" with "fallen women" and met prostitutes late at night either on the street, in his house or in their ...

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