In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures.
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How Arachne came to a weaving contest against Minerva, but told the truth about gods and goddess, so was turned into a spider.
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Paintings of Morocco by Marià Fortuny, Théo van Rysselberghe, Enrique Simonet, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.
Delacroix as a pioneer of Orientalism with his paintings of Morocco, based on his visit in 1832. Then Marià Fortuny, war artist there in 1860.
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His Impressionism changed into a dazzling Luminism. He painted a series of famous views of the River Thames when in exile in London.
Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny’s series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others.
A Norwegian who became a pupil of JC Dahl in Dresden, and painting nocturnes of Nordic ports, and awe-inspiring rocky coasts and mountains.
The helmets of Minerva, Bellona, Mars, Perseus, Achilles, Aeneas, the Knights of the Round Table, and Joan of Arc.
The Eclectic Light Company 