January is named after the Roman god of transitions, Janus, and is the first month of the New Year. Or is it? Classical civilisations more usually started their year in Spring, and what’s this about Juno?
Category Archive: Life
Symbolism, Naturalism, Neo-Impressionism, industrial realism, Hudson River landscapes, folklore, orientalist landscapes, Impressionism, and genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age.
Last of London’s working horses, the fall of Phaethon, 3D water droplets in Hell, vanitas symbols, Neptune’s horses, a blown-out umbrella, and others.
Lower East Side tenements, King Midas with ass’s ears, unusual interiors, Napoleon’s retreat in 1812, marble quarries, British music halls, and more.
Domestic interiors that aren’t quite right, a woman’s black silhouette that seems to absorb light, a colour-coded account of Perseus rescuing Andromeda, and his last landscapes.
Among the leaders of the French Revolution, he was almost guillotined alongside Robespierre, but got on well with Napoleon, and was even offered the post of court painter to King Louis XVIII.
John Singer Sargent’s huge murals of classical myths, two last narrative paintings by Lovis Corinth, modern style in portraits by Anita Rée, and Oleksandra Ekster’s ‘Theatrical Composition’.
Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted.
The Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi, painted by Bastien-Lepage, Murillo, Hieronymus Bosch, Edward Burne-Jones, and others.
Successful on his 4th attempt at the Prix de Rome, he became the leading Neoclassical painter and painted history and other narratives. Then he became embroiled in the French Revolution.
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