Paintings by Gustave Courbet, Paul Signac, Marie Bracquemond, Vincent van Gogh, LA Ring, Carl Larsson, Maurice Denis, William McGregor Paxton, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard.
Category Archive: Life
Learning how to sew, gossiping over sewing, or sitting apart, professional seamstresses, Gauguin’s odd nude, and Vallotton’s sewing maid.
Sewing for Garibaldi’s redshirts, the flag of a castle, Sir Lancelot, fishermen and sailors, Pentecost costumes, and other purposes.
Bacchus granted him the boon that everything he touched turned to gold. When that proved disastrous, his power was washed away, but he then offended Apollo and was given the ears of an ass.
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
Paintings by Watteau, Manet, Adolph Menzel, Claude Monet and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
By the end of the 19th century, 80% of those in Europe lived in towns and cities, drawn there by the promise of material riches that were not available to them in the country. This new series explores what they faced.
A grand castle kitchen, the element fire, Vermeer’s milkmaid, a witch’s kitchen for Faust, a rotund cardinal tasting the sauce, and in a humble apartment in London.
A deer substituted for the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as companions for the sorceresses Medea and Circe, in Bonnard’s rural idyll, Rosa Bonheur’s wildlife portraits, and others.
The bard is torn limb from limb by frenzied bacchantes, leaving his head and lyre to float down the River Hebrus and over to the shores of Lesbos.
