A cheap substitute for tapestries, they came of age in the 19th century when paper could be made in long rolls and colour printing had improved.
Category Archive: Life
More detailed and faithful landscapes of Wales, Scotland, and his native Norway. Teacher of Christian Krogh, Frits Thaulow and others.
Born in what is now Oslo, he trained in DĂĽsseldorf, Germany, and painted faithful and highly detailed landscapes, mainly in his native country.
How expression of pain became stereotyped in narrative paintings from Caravaggio to Böcklin, a very early Rembrandt and the anguish of a ewe on the death of her lamb.
Achilles’ ghost demands the sacrifice of Hecuba’s daughter in appeasement. Hecuba then blinds Polymestor for killing her son. Finally Aurora laments the death of her son Memnon.
In the early years of the 20th century, Sorolla started painting well-dressed young ladies strolling along the beaches of his native València.
Sorolla’s paintings through the 1890s showed the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen who worked from the beaches of València.
Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future.
Small clocks inside glass bell cases on the mantelpiece, and longcase clocks ticking away the time as items of furniture. But these are rare examples until the 20th century.
Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean BĂ©raud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex.
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