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Stylized painting of a pale walled city encircled by a coiled red serpent under a dark mountain and blue dusk sky.

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The Doomed City (1914) by Nicholas Roerich, dated 1914, shows a fortified city of pale towers and arched gates set in a dark, stylized landscape. A long, red and blue patterned serpent coils around the city and across the foreground, while a dark mountain rises under a blue-grey sky above a turquoise pool and scattered rocks.

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1914

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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