From the end of the Thirty Years’ War, settlement of Cape Colony, the United East India Company as the largest in the world with a private army of 10,000, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, to invasion by France and decline in 1672.
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From the start of the Eighty Years’ War with Habsburg Spain, through the Union of Utrecht, foundation of the East India Company, tulip mania, and abundant Rembrandts.
Take a flat metal plate and paint on it using gouache or oils, then impress it onto a sheet of paper, and apply soft pastel to bring out the colour. That’s a painted monotype print.
After the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the most popular literary source for paintings before 1900, yet hardly anyone knows this epic today. The introduction to a new series.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 344. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Iron, copper, […]
Invented by Paracelsus, to have an afterlife they must marry a human. But that man must remain faithful to them, or they will die from Ondine’s Curse.
River gods from Rubens, Poussin, Coypel and Boucher, with Naiads from Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Henrietta Rae and others.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Iron, copper, […]
Pygmalion painted by Edward Burne-Jones and Gérôme, the painted frieze of the Parthenon, Eakins and the sculptor Rush, Lovis Corinth’s portrait, and a cheeky monkey by Watteau.
Two contrasting Virgins of the Lilies, a remarkable scene of the female figure of Death with a fearful gravedigger, a woman poet walking in the Elysian Fields, and other distinctive paintings.
The Eclectic Light Company 