The new medium of the latter half of the 20th century, and how pioneers like Sam Golden transformed it to make it suitable as a replacement for oils.
Category Archive: Life
To the depths of Hell, to see the giant triple-headed Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Then as dawn draws near, back to the world above.
How Lycurgus got the Spartans to keep his laws, the 300 at Thermopylae, a Spartan poet supporting warriors in the 2nd Messenian War, and the role of Sparta in the start of the war against Troy.
The remarkable story of how Lycurgus laid down the oral laws of Sparta, to create the perfect male warrior. Paintings by Degas, Delacroix, David and others.
The first portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, scenes of the Franco-Prussian War, two huge religious paintings, and two superb views of the Scottish Highlands. Doré as you’ve not seen him before.
Known today only for his prolific illustrations of major European narratives and the Bible, he was also an accomplished and well-received painter in oils.
Active in Haarlem and Amsterdam during and after Poussin’s later years, his depiction of trees is outstanding, and his old oaks are lifelike.
Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.
The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater’s physiognomy.
After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life’s work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.
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