It has been claimed that he had xanthopsia, tinting what he saw with yellow. While there’s no medical evidence to support that, what his paintings from 1888 tell us?
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A small selection of his instantaneous narrative paintings from 35 years of his career, mainly of Ovid’s myths, and Susanna and Elders.
Austrian artist regarded as important as Klimt at the time. Realist and Naturalist paintings of the Austrian Tyrol, from 1887-1903.
A huge area of ancient mixed deciduous woodland south-east of Paris. Centre of the Barbizon School and an early playground for the French Impressionists who followed.
How the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, heroic commander of the Greeks in the Trojan War, came to murder his mother and her lover, after they killed his father.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 383. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Pasted on […]
Born in Lowell, MA, first trained in St Petersburg, later left the US in 1855 for Paris, where he trained under Charles Gleyre. Worked in his London studio 1859-92, influenced by French chinoiserie and ‘Anglo-Japanese’ style. Never returned to the US, and died in London in 1903.
Born in Springfield, PA, he left the US for Rome in 1760, settled in London in 1763, and never returned to America. Appointed royal historical painter to King George III, and buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Pasted on […]
In just over a decade, his watercolour landscapes rivalled those of his contemporary JMW Turner. What could he have achieved had he not died at the age of only 27?
