Around 1890, two aspiring painters passed through a phase of Naturalism: in Spain, JoaquĂn Sorolla, and in Sweden, Anders Zorn, both on their way to become masters.
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After reaching a peak around 1909, in 1916 Bonnard suddenly stopped painting mirror play, and didn’t resume until the 1930s.
For over 40 years, Bonnard used mirror play in many of his paintings of intimate domestic scenes, often involving his partner Marthe as model.
Classical and mediaeval friezes and sculpture were often painted or polychrome, a practice that remained popular for religious statues, and sculptures made by some painters.
Perseus kills the sea monster, and marries Andromeda as his reward. Phineus and his friends turn nasty at their wedding, and are turned to stone, and how the couple became constellations.
Was it Dante’s Beatrice or Rossetti’s Lizzie? Paintings by Rossetti, Henry Holiday, Marie Spartali Stillman, Odilon Redon and others.
Dante’s beloved Beatrice seen in paintings by Washington Allston, William Blake, William Dyce, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others.
Paintings from Erik Henningsen, Léon Lhermitte, Émile Friant, and Jean-Eugène Buland in the 1890s, towards the end of Naturalist painting.
From Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding to Velázquez’s Las Meninas, how the skilful use of mirrors can add to a painting in mirror play.
Named after the red lead pigment used to outline them, these illustrate luxury manuscript books. Examples from around 400 CE through accounts of the Crusades, to Aesop’s fables in 1530.
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