Flaming June by Lord Frederic Leighton Business Card
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Flaming June (1895). Artist: Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). Flaming June is a vintage Victorian fine art painting featuring a woman sleeping. It is widely considered to be Leighton's magnum opus, showing his classicist nature. It is thought that the woman portrayed alludes to the sleeping figures the Greeks would often paint which were collectively referred to as Venus. About the artist: Lord Frederic Leighton was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. His genre was Academicism, academic art is a style which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
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