The Last Dance
Restorations Rebecca Tillett Restorations Rebecca Tillett

The Last Dance

The Dance of Death originates in medieval plays and folk rituals performed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December), and in funeral sermons. In the most popular version, Death (in the form of a skeleton) dances in succession with people representing particular social ranks (Pope, emperor, king, lawyer, peasant, etc.) and takes away each in turn, demonstrating that nobody, however exalted in this life, can escape death.

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Introducing Luis Ricardo Falero
Photo Collage, Prose, Restorations Rebecca Tillett Photo Collage, Prose, Restorations Rebecca Tillett

Introducing Luis Ricardo Falero

We’re super excited to announce the addition of six restored works by the spellbinding Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero to our Restored Reproductions collection. Known for his masterful blend of mythology, astronomy, and dark fantasy, Falero captured the 19th-century imagination with richly detailed nudes, witches, and celestial beings rendered in luminous, otherworldly settings.

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The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
Box Sets, Specialty Rebecca Tillett Box Sets, Specialty Rebecca Tillett

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings

If Strong and Hardy is anything to me, it’s the intersection of my love for both art and science, the collision between spirituality and materialism, the surreal and the actual, the abundant still unexplained magic we live undaunted by as well as the exceptional heaps of knowledge we have acquired about ourselves and this world we inhabit.

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Nightmare
Restorations, History Rebecca Tillett Restorations, History Rebecca Tillett

Nightmare

Nightmare by Nicolai Abildgaard draws inspiration from Johann Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting Nachtmahr. First exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1782, Fuseli’s work was rapidly reproduced and widely distributed across Europe in both authorized and unauthorized versions.

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