A murky figure who is distinguished by being triple-bodied. Associated with crossroads, the moon and night, and sorcery.
Category Archive: Life
How William Merritt Chase’s beard changed, beards in literature such as ‘Faust’, Bluebeard, Redbeard, and beware of the moustache.
Beards on Father Time, river gods, God the Father, ancient mariners, and lots and lots of artists, especially the Nabis.
Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.
Swiss, born in Russia, settled in Britain after training in Germany, painted landscapes of Australia and New Zealand.
Innovation moved to the countryside around Rome, with Joseph Vernet, and Valenciennes, who prescribed skying in his textbook on landscape painting.
During a visit to St Ives in Cornwall, he starts painting in oils, then moves to Paris where commercial and artistic success await.
In which Adam is shown the events to come, including Cain and Abel, suffering and death, and the Flood.
Sisters at the heart of the myth of Perseus, Medusa and Andromeda. In painting by Burne-Jones, Caravaggio, Malczewski, Klimt and others.
Japanese woodblock prints were influenced by European prints, in turn becoming popular with Impressionists, who attracted Japanese artists to study in Paris.
