When you’re a great narrative painter and a diplomat, one painting might be all that is needed to secure a peace treaty.
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The second section maintains the botanical metaphor, in which love flowers, and passes. Six superb paintings explain.
The short conclusion to the house of Cadmus is touching, doubly transformative, and painted by a single artist.
Which do you prefer: Facebook or Twitter? For me the choice was simple, and Facebook’s response has only reinforced my decision.
Some extraordinary paintings exploring transient and unusual effects of light, culminating in a retrospective, and his most radical work of all.
The first six paintings in his mature 1902 version of the Frieze explore the early development of love, told from a very personal point of view.
It looks like a regular, exquisitely beautiful landscape, with forests, rugged hills, and rivers. In fact it bears a story, told largely in its figures.
Now over 20,000 words in length, content ranges from the plain and simple to detailed analysis of Sierra’s log. Free and ready for you to augment and update.
Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide – one of the most complex characters to paint. Known from her letter in Heroides, and a lost work by Ovid.
Like the Alma-Tademas, a Belgian family of talented painters who specialised in scenes set in Pompeii.
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