The story of the greatest slayer of monsters, son of Zeus and Danaë, who was sent on a mission to bring back the severed head of Medusa, then stopped in Ethiopia to rescue a princess who was about to be eaten by a sea monster.
Category Archive: Painting
Following another visit to Ecuador and Colombia in 1857, he painted his masterwork ‘The Heart of the Andes’, which had to be viewed using opera glasses to appreciate its intricate detail.
Paintings by Blechen, Brendekilde, Tina Blau, William Merritt Chase and Prendergast, of the Villa Borghese, the Prater, Central Park and Prospect Park.
Paintings by West, Linnell, De Nittis, Fanner, Maitland, Manet, Menzel, Prendergast and Pissarro, of London’s Royal Parks, and the Tuileries in Paris.
How optical effects familiar from photography became incorporated into Naturalist paintings, and major painters adopted photography as an art form.
When you see the same face in a mirror that you presume that figure can also see, despite that being optically impossible. An exploration.
Raphael’s ten tapestries for the walls of the Sistine Chapel, many cartoons painted by Francisco Goya for the Royal Factory in Santa Bárbara, paintings by Edward Burne-Jones for tapestries woven for William Morris, and more.
A brief overview of the plot of Tasso’s epic, complete with links to all the articles, and a selection of the best of paintings.
One of the founding American masters, sole pupil of the founder of the Hudson River School, his landscapes are meticulously detailed and painted in the studio from many plein air oil sketches.
Suddenly popular in paintings from around 1880, the story of Pandora and her box brought many interpretations, and remains a story of our time.
The Eclectic Light Company 