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James Lucas

@JamesLucasIT

Sep 13, 2024 • 20 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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Thread of the most beautiful sunsets in art 🧵

1. The Song of the Lark by Jules Breton

2. Looking Down the Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt

3. A landscape at sunset by Claude Vernet

4. Dusk in Venice by Claude Monet

5. The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire by William Turner

6. Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church

7. The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky

8. The Fighting Temeraire by William Turner

9. Sunset in the Rockies by Albert Bierstadt

10. The sower by Vincent van Gogh

11. Seaport at Sunset by Claude Lorrain

12. Red Sunset on the Dnieper by Archip Ivanovič Kuindži

13. The Roofs of Paris Sunset by Gustave Cariot

14. The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset by Claude Monet

15. The Return by Thomas Cole

16. The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh

17. Ship at Sea, Sunset by Edward Moran

18. Twilight Mount Desert Island, Maine by Frederic Edwin Church

19. Sunset by Caspar David Friedrich

20. The Houses of Parliament, Sunset by Claude Monet

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