This is my first entry, thought I'd give it a try. It was harder than I thought, especially trying to keep the look of the marble. The original painting was from William Godward.

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A mother's instincts never fade, even through death. She watches over both child and caregiver, in echoing silence...

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Result is quite melancholic, I think, exactly as I wanted.

Hope you like it! Original paint by Salvador Dalí, signed on the bottom-right corner.

He keeps on returning to his library to read one of his books...
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Vain venus, ghostly glowing beauty.

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If you venture to artrenewal.org, and check out Lord Frederick Leighton's "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it", you will find a long narrative that explains the painting. But basically the husband is alive, while wife and son were dead. So thought I'd make them the ghosts for this contest. Hope you like it.

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The ghost of Flora, the lady of the field.

(Original painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1877)