A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.
Category Archive: Life
Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.
In which Adam is warned again not to eat the fruit of the tree of Knowledge, and recalls how Eve was made from his rib.
Often an excuse for a classical nude, at least two paintings show her clothed, and many reveal her love affairs.
Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.
More slumbering people painted by Courbet, Doré, Walter Crane, and major painters of the 19th century.
Sleeping figures painted by Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, William Blake, Richard Dadd and other masters.
At the start of the 20th century, he painted huge canvases for major public buildings, including a series for Toulouse’s palatial capitol.
Does a novel viral infection like Covid-19 grow exponentially? Yes, but only so far. An exploration with charts.
The last years of the nineteenth century were highly productive, with landscapes and Symbolist works too.
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