After Church painted the Andes, Albert Bierstadt travelled with surveyors to the Rockies in 1859 and 1863, from where his paintings are awe-inspiring.
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Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others.
Hyacinthus killed by a discus, a couple married as the result of a running race, funeral games, Roman spectacle, and the games of childhood.
Book 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses start with an account of the creation, the four ages of man, then tells of the first transformation, of Lycaon into a (were)wolf.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 237. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Dandelion […]
Its reputation promoted by Gauguin and Émile Bernard, the artist’s colony was in the avant garde with Paul Sérusier and remained popular into the 20th century.
This artist’s colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Dandelion seed head […]
The Roman poet whose poetic account of myths found a place in almost every workshop or studio in Europe between 1500-1850.
Paintings of mountains in Australia and New Zealand, by Eugene von Guérard, Nicholas Chevalier, John Turnbull Thomson, Marianne North and Charles Blomfield.
The Eclectic Light Company 