Passing Minos, who directs the dead to the right circle for their sins, they enter the circle for those guilty of lust. There they hear the story of Paolo and Francesca and their violent deaths.
Category Archive: Life
Derived from the dull yellow-green of chromium oxide, it was widely used by Impressionists, and well into the 20th century. Less toxic, but an environmental hazard.
A highly toxic arsenic salt, it succeeded Scheele’s green and was widely used until the 20th century, and finally discontinued in the 1960s.
A natural mineral, it was unpopular in oil paint because of its coarse granules, but worked well in water-based media. It faded from use after a brief revival in the 19th century.
Saskia died in 1642, so he hired a widow to look after his young son. They became lovers, broke up, and he lived with his former maid. In 1656 he was made insolvent, and spent the rest of his life in poverty, painting even more wonderfully.
A master at the age of only 19, he was discovered 4 years later, then moved to Amsterdam where he shot to fame and success. He married Saskia in 1634, and they moved into their own house in a fashionable quarter in 1639.
Huge paintings using opaque watercolour paint, layered combinations of transparent and opaque, scratching out, wax resist and even grains of salt.
Dante and Virgil enter the first circle of Hell, Limbo, where those who never sinned but weren’t baptised in the Christian faith are confined.
Summer storms from Constant Troyon, Albert Bierstadt, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard and others.
Paintings of summer storms from the dawn of landscape art and Giorgione, through Poussin and Vernet, to Palmer and Constable.
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