Paintings of the Roman countryside by Michallon, Blechen, Camille Corot, Arnold Böcklin, and others following Valenciennes’ teaching.
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Remarkable oil sketches made in the countryside around Rome that laid the foundation for training in landscape painting, and ultimately Impressionism.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […]
Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others.
Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema.
Ariadne, Bacchantes, Sappho, Queen Guinevere, Salome and Judith in ecstasy, in paintings by Lovis Corinth, David, Rossetti, Gustav Klimt and others.
Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others.
Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 299. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lucida […]
After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870.
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