When the sun doesn’t set at all, or sinks little before rising again. Paintings from North Cape to the US East Coast.
Category Archive: Life
Strictly the Eve of Saint the Baptist, it’s marked in the Nordic and other European countries with bonfires, feasting and dancing.
After a set of 17 lithographs illustrating Goethe’s ‘Faust’, his most famous painting of ‘Liberty Leading the People’ that was only seen infrequently over the next 40 years.
Brunelleschi’s geometry, Masaccio’s technique and vision, Alberti’s initial and popular account, followed by a comprehensive account by Piero della Francesca.
The goddess Diana, Selene, the Virgin and Child, or is it just the moon in the sky of a pastoral landscape? Paintings from Bosch to van Gogh.
Born in Kharkiv and trained in Moscow, he became a Neo-Primitivist after attending further training in Paris.
Odysseus is lashed to the mast as his ship passes the Sirens without being lured away. He’s the only survivor after shipwreck, then is trapped with Calypso for seven years.
In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion.
Throughout the 19th century, as going to the beach became more popular, adults at least only bared essentials, and even covered arms and legs.
For his third Salon in 1827, he submitted one huge work developed from Lord Byron’s account of the death of Sardanapalus.
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