Blissful Moment

Benjamin W. Kilburn

Copyright 1893

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Rapier House, Mobile, Stanley Blake McNeely, photograph
Woman in traditional Italian peasant costume kneeling before a wayside shrine to the Virgin Mary in the Campagna outside Rome. Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct visible in the lower left corner of the composition. The dome of St. Peter's Basilica can be seen in the distant skyline.
Standing Female Nude, Lucille Douglass, charcoal
The work depicts an erupting volcano (Mount Vesuvius) with plume of ash and smoke in distant background, transected by a long horizontal cloud. A vast expanse of placid water (Tyrrhenian Sea), receding in space to the base of the volcano, fills the fore- and middle-ground.