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“Moreau encrusted his canvases — jewel red, mosaic gold, indigo dusk — until myth became a piece of metalwork.”
Gustave Moreau
Painter · Symbolism · 1826–1898
French Symbolist whose Salomes and Orpheuses dripped with jewel reds, mosaic golds, and an indigo dusk.
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“Moreau encrusted his canvases — jewel red, mosaic gold, indigo dusk — until myth became a piece of metalwork.”
French Symbolist whose Salomes and Orpheuses dripped with jewel reds, mosaic golds, and an indigo dusk.