More paintings of cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Modigliani, and Gustav Klimt.
Category Archive: Life
In the more southern parts of Europe, the tree most strongly associated with churchyards and graveyards, representing grief.
Illustrated editions of the epic became most popular towards the end of the 19th century, when Walter Crane created the finest.
Six books of poetry from 1590-96 telling allegories of virtues such as temperance and chastity, with many fine paintings and illustrations.
A selection of sky-rich oil sketches made in the Roman Campagna during the first half of the 19th century.
A portrait of Grover Cleveland, who had until recently President of the USA, an impudent nude, and girls frolicking in the sauna.
Many myths concern his endless adulterous rapes of mortals and subsequent pregnancies, but there’s also Philemon and Baucis.
The figure appears in later landscapes, including one by Martín Rico, and a pastel by Millet, before being radically revised by Ferdinand Hodler.
The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?
There’s a reliable and accurate index for the heat which can’t be measured by iPhones or Macs, and isn’t understood by many anyway.
