Portraits by Lovis Corinth, Thomas Eakins’ widow Susan, a great Estonian pastellist, and others, and insights into Pierre Bonnard’s conflicted personal life.
Category Archive: Life
A faithful wife is being pestered by another man. She sets him an impossible task, of creating an enchanted Spring garden in the January snow.
Innovative interpretations from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Vittorio Corcos, Oleksandr Murashko, JW Waterhouse, and Jacek Malczewski.
Fine paintings from Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Gerard David, Beccafumi, Lavinia Fontana, Tintoretto, El Greco and Murillo.
A field deserted during the harvest, crosses packing the war cemetery at Châlons, Susanne being blackmailed, the château above Les Andelys, and more.
A man furtively making off with two loaves, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, baking bread in rural Sweden, a traditional baking oven, and glistening alongside mackerel and glassware.
An eclectic range from LA Ring’s fine realism, Paul Signac’s Pointillism and watercolours, Pierre Bonnard in Le Midi, to Marsden Hartley and Lesser Ury.
Five paintings of women in trouble: Ariadne on Naxos, Mary Magdalen, an allegory of logic, the disillusioned Medea, and Cydippe with the apple of Acontius.
Cimon is a problem child until he sees Iphigenia. He reforms, but her parents refuse his proposal. When he abducts her as she is being taken to be married off, everything goes wrong.
Paintings by David Teniers the Younger, Domenicus van Wijnen, Tiepolo, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Félicien Rops and Lovis Corinth.
