Links to each of the articles in this series, and to many other previous articles. Covers painting in the provinces forming the Dutch Republic between 1600-72.
Category Archive: Painting
Trained first as an engraver, he avoided oil paints altogether, working in conventional watercolour, mixed media, and developed two distinctive techniques, one of watercolour monoprints, the other using glue tempera.
A mystic dies from burns after an ordeal by fire, Jerusalem is put under siege, then on 13 July they take the Holy City and start massacring its inhabitants. Few return alive to Europe.
More influence in paintings by van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, the Nabis sculptor Georges Lacombe, Helen Hyde, and Colin Campbell Cooper.
How woodcut ukiyo-e prints took Europe by storm after the reached Paris in about 1856, and influenced Whistler, De Nittis, Vedder, Zorn, van Gogh and others.
Axes for human sacrifice, execution, demolition of a bridge to save the city of Rome, as symbols of authority leading to Fascism, and cleaving a hazelnut for fairies.
Wood nymphs or Dryads, with Hamadryads being bonded to a tree. Painting by Evelyn De Morgan, Félicien Rops, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse and others.
The main driving forces were a rich diversity in both Dutch society and its painted themes, and the popularity of paintings among the republic’s citizens. Visual art thrived.
Three remarkable series: in 1793, painted in oil on tinplate; from 1819 his Black Paintings in oil on plaster on the walls of his villa; in 1824-25 using watercolours on tiny thin slivers of ivory.
Pope Urban II’s plan to maintain the Peace of God calls on the faithful to fight for their lives in Jerusalem. The rival People’s Crusade pillages and slaughters all non-Christians, and few survive by the time they’ve left Antioch for Jerusalem.
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