Originally from Germany, he served as court painter to a succession of English kings. He painted hundreds of portraits, and a few earl narrative works.
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Pegasus, and the confusion over whether Perseus ever rode him, a hippogriff from Orlando Furioso, and a black winged horse ridden by a valkyrie.
Often overlooked, a Tuscan master of the Renaissance, whose large frescos in the cathedral of Orvieto show the events of the Apocalypse and Last Judgement.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 225. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Stacks […]
Paintings by Giorgione, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Elisabetta Sirani, Goya, Horace Vernet, Jules Lefebvre, Klimt, Kolo Moser, and Franz von Stuck.
Paintings by Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Veronese, Lavinia Fontana, and Bigot all showing the murder.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Stacks inspired by […]
Photographic lenses introduced depth of field effects, something not normally seen in normal human vision. A few paintings followed photographs.
Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.
Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.
