How the tradition of Christmas trees is relatively recent, family scenes of celebrating the day before Christmas, and how it also became a day to remember the poor and others less fortunate.
Category Archive: Life
Views of France, from the island of Groix in the north-west, to Saint-Tropez in the south. By Signac, Bonnard, Vallotton, van Rysselberghe, and others.
This is the second in my series of articles looking at paintings believed to have been created a […]
Passes of St Gothard, Chalus in N Iran, the Pyrenees, the Vikos Gorge, the Daryal Gorge in the Caucasus, the Simplon and others.
More examples drawn from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and from “The Tempest”, that were exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
Found in Celtic and Germanic folklore, they first become popular in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and established a sub-genre in the 19th century.
From his conception in an adulterous deception arranged by Merlin, and drawing a sword from an anvil, to his death following wounds inflicted by the dying Mordred.
The life and death of Joan of Arc painted by Paul Delaroche, Ingres, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Annie Swynnerton, and others.
The visions of Joan of Arc painted by Jules Bastien-Lepage, the American Gari Melchers, Odilon Redon, John William Waterhouse, and others.
Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth, Jacek Malczewski, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Albin Egger-Lienz, and Edmond Aman-Jean tell stories from 1923.
The Eclectic Light Company 