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The Power of Role Models – How Imitation Promotes Self-Transformation

October 23, 2023

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Art Used in this Video

The Melancholic Man - Théodore Géricault

Downfall, from the series A Life, Opus VIII, no. 12 (1884), etching and drypoint, 27.6 × 22.8 cm. Art Institute of Chicago

Imitation of Christ Chap1 Chapman and Hall 1878

Edvard Munch - Separation - MM.M.00024 - Munch Museum

Max Klinger - Vom Tode - 1933.126 - Cleveland Museum of Art

J.L. Gerome - The Wailing Wall - Google Art Project

1890 Lovis Corinth Genesendes Mädchen

Felix Nussbaum, The Encounter (The Pessimist), 1930 (München, private collection)

Misery MET DP871930

Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait against a Blue Sky - MM.M.00536 - Munch Museum

Redon - Cauldron of the Sorceress, 1879

James Ensor - Demons Teasing Me

Semiradsky Christ Martha Maria

The baby's food (unknown date), by Gaetano Chierici

Brooklyn Museum - Mother and Child Before a Pool - Mary Cassatt

Les ennemis de la récolte (Farmer and son bird hunting in a winterly landscape)

Jean Baptiste François Bosio - Portrait of the artist with his son Astyanax Scaevola

The Pearls (Mourners), 1938

A Picture of Misery Met DP884754

After Titian (c. 1488-Venice 1576) - Titian and his Friends - RCIN 402841 - Royal Collection

Nieznany malarz niderlandzki - Absalom propitiating friends (2 Samuel 15-2-5) - 184751 MNW - National Museum in Warsaw

Spitzweg, Carl - Childhood Friends - Google Art Project

Circle of Rembrandt - Old Man in Prayer

Adriaen Brouwer - Inn with drunken peasants

John Quidor - Rip Van Winkle and His Companions at the Inn Door of Nicholas Vedder - 48.469 - Museum of Fine Arts

WLANL - MicheleLovesArt - Van Gogh Museum - Emile Bernard - Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, 1888 cropped

Richard Wilson - Apollo and the Seasons (Classical Landscape) - 1956.11.68 - Smithsonian American Art Museum

Munch - Around the Drinking Table, 1927–30, MM.M.00123

Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880) - Goethe - 0541 - Führermuseum

Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen (1830-1923) - Edward Heneage Dering (1826–1892), 'The Philosopher's Morning Walk' - 343145 - National Trust

Platon, Biblioteka Marciana

Rembrandt - Aristotle with a Bust of Homer - WGA19232

John Francis Rigaud - Joseph Nollekens with His Bust of Laurence Sterne - Google Art Project

'The Triumph of Caesar' by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, c. 1510, Lowe Art Museum

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Netherlandish Proverbs (detail) - WGA3370

Willem van der Vliet - Philosopher and Pupils - WGA25281

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