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Thread of the most beautiful paintings of the moon:

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Dancing Fairies by August Malmström (1866)
Autumn Moon At Ishiyama Temple, from Eight Views of Omi, by Hiroshige (1834)
Moonlit Night on the Dnieper by Arkhip Kuindzhi (1880)
Cymon and Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton (1884)
Rising Moon by Stanisław Masłowski (1884)
Moon Rising over Mount Nanping by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1885)
The Flight into Egypt by Adam Elsheimer (1609)
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau (1897)
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank by J.M.W. Turner
The Galata Tower under Moonlight by Ivan Aivazovsky (1845)
Mediterranean Port at Night by Claude Joseph Vernet (1771)
City at Moonrise by Caspar David Friedrich (1817)
The Mishima River in Mutsu Province, from Souvenirs of Travel, by Hasui Kawase (1919)
Cliffs in the Moonlight by Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (1830)

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