The Empire of Lights

The Empire of Lights (French: L'Empire des lumières) is a series of oil on canvas paintings by René Magritte painted between 1953 and 1954. They depict the paradoxical image of a nighttime street, lit only by a single street light, beneath a daytime sky.^[1] The paintings inspired a scene in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, used on posters as well as home video releases, in which the character Father Merrin stands in front of the MacNeil family's house.^[2]^[3]

The Empire of Lights in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Empire of Lights in the Museum of Modern Art
The Empire of Lights in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

References

↑ "The Empire of Lights also known as L'Empire des Lumieres". Aaron Art Prints. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
↑ "25 Fascinating Facts About The Exorcist". Listverse. 30 October 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
↑ "20 Fun Facts About The Exorcist On Its 40th Birthday". Mental Floss. 26 December 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2014.

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René Magritte

Notable paintings	The Difficult Crossing (1926/1963) The Menaced Assassin (1927) The Adulation of Space (1927-1928) The Empty Mask (1928) The Treachery of Images (1928–1929) On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937) The Voice of Space (1931) Elective Affinities (1933) The Human Condition (1933/1935) The Portrait (1935) Not to be Reproduced (1937) Time Transfixed (1938) The Palace of Memories (1939) The Son of Man (1946) The Listening Room (1952) Golconda (1953) The Empire of Lights (1954) The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955) The Telescope (1963) The Great War (1964)

Movement	Surrealism

Related articles	Magritte Museum Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts Western painting

Wikimedia	Magritte at Wiktionary Magritte at Wikibooks Magritte at Wikiquote Magritte at Wikisource Magritte at Commons Magritte at Wikinews

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