Where did milliners come from? How does it take 5 hours to choose a hat? What did Ouled Naïl women wear on their head? More wonderful paintings of hats and their owners.
Category Archive: Life
Why did Bosch show people wearing funnels on their heads? Why the Roundheads? How to tell priestly rank by the hat, and more about chaperons and top hats.
Considers what exactly changed in painting in the Renaissance, and when we can establish as those dates, compared with literature, for example.
In 1832, he just sailed off to India to spend the next 7 years wandering around the Western Himalaya. When someone pointed a gun at him, he quickly painted their portrait.
Where Britomart wins Satyrane’s tournament, Marinell and Florimell agree to marry, Artegall accomplishes his quest for Irena, and the Blatant Beast is muzzled for a while.
Pleasant genre paintings which were admired by millions of readers in the late nineteenth century – and a mystery painting telling a strange story from 1613, of Pocahontas.
Easily confused with Artemis (Diana), her sign is the crescent moon, and her lover is Endymion, who despite sleeping forever, fathered her 50 daughters.
From Corot to Sérusier, the American Thomas Cole to the British John Brett, a collection of superb landscapes of the city.
Paintings of the city of Florence recreating times past, from Dante’s meeting with Beatrice, to Lorenzo the Magnificent in the late 15th century.
How the Tuscan city of Florence came to provide the right conditions for the Renaissance during the 14th century.
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