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Category Archive: Life
Paintings of Kangchenjunga and Everest, and sundry peaks of the Himalaya, by Edward Lear, Marianne North and Nicholas Roerich.
Trained under William Merritt Chase, and a friend of Puvis de Chavannes, she painted and collected in Paris for 40 years, and had a retrospective in the Louvre.
Originally from Germany, he served as court painter to a succession of English kings. He painted hundreds of portraits, and a few earl narrative works.
Pegasus, and the confusion over whether Perseus ever rode him, a hippogriff from Orlando Furioso, and a black winged horse ridden by a valkyrie.
Often overlooked, a Tuscan master of the Renaissance, whose large frescos in the cathedral of Orvieto show the events of the Apocalypse and Last Judgement.
Paintings by Giorgione, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Elisabetta Sirani, Goya, Horace Vernet, Jules Lefebvre, Klimt, Kolo Moser, and Franz von Stuck.
Paintings by Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Veronese, Lavinia Fontana, and Bigot all showing the murder.
Photographic lenses introduced depth of field effects, something not normally seen in normal human vision. A few paintings followed photographs.
Following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt’s expedition of 1802, it was Frederic Edwin Church who painted this huge mountain range, and became famous as a result.
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