His early landscapes followed van Mander. He also expressed his love of Claude’s work, before composition dissolved into light and colour.
Category Archive: Life
Four days of relaxation before Don Quixote drags Sancho Panza back out onto the road, where they witness a fencing duel.
Paintings of autumn from the early 20th century, by Jakub Schikaneder to Grant Wood.
Paintings conveying the atmosphere of autumn, from Joos de Momper in the early 17th century, to Hawkins in about 1890,
From 1880, he painted in Naturalist style, then switched to Impressionism in the early 1890s. He finally embraced post-Impressionism in the 1920s.
An overview of his major paintings from La Gloria in 1772 to experimental miniatures on ivory flakes in 1825.
Two young men cast adrift on the River Seine, a king having his hair cut, and one of the finest and most haunting paintings of Psyche.
Independent development of landscape as a genre in Britain, from Gainsborough to John Constable, and radical departure from tradition.
The pair meet a hidalgo, then a cart loaded with two lions. Despite protests from everyone, Don Quixote insists on facing the lions to show what sort of a man he is.
More leaf-peeping, from Tina Blau and Monet’s poplars on the River Epte, to Paul Nash’s eerie Wittenham Clumps under the moon’s last phase.
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